does this sound like a stupid plan?

You sound clueless. Go and talk to an advisor in the SU about the implications of failing one modile. You mau be able to resit or retake to bump back to an honours degree. In most cases whether a degree has hons or not doesnt matter.

As for your plan it sounds pretty mental. The maintenance isnt that much and you will still have to pay that plus the fees back. How much money do you think you will be saving? The uni will still take the £9000 fees. Will you be eraning enough doing an apprenticeship? Seems like a crazy plan.

its a 6000 uni but im really not bothered with that, i will only have to pay back when earning 21000+, i can save 3000 plus anything from job/apprenticeship and then when my dad tells me to get lost from his house for not passing uni I have something to fall on

Im unfamilat but I thought fees went straight to the uni and not into your account?

this is an awful idea. Either bite the bullet and drop out to face the music or continue on.

I got a degree and had all my funding a crap degree 2:1 but from crap uni, I want to go back to university now but will have to fund it myself.

the only thing worse then that is not only losing the funding in the future but not even having any form of a degree. you take on £9000 of extra debt (which yes you dont pay back unless you earn over a certain amount but you want to earn min wage?) and you lose that funding if you ever want to put things right and do a degree in the future now you need to find £9000 in extra in hard cash?

terrible idea.

Why did you fail?

also im already inelegible for funding, if i want to do anything else i have to pay for the first year

it used to be you got four years of funding or up to. I don't know if thats changed but what a great plan so now If i have to pay for the first year with straight up cash lets put an even bigger obstacle in a way and make that 2 years.

why ruin your future options your likely to seriously regret this later in life.

lol you think someone like me will ever see 9k cash in his life? let alone be able to give it away to fund education he is incapable of completing?

Yeah nice one mate, I know this isn't going to make me that popular but I am in a position to say stuff that others cant say so you can pull that one off on me.

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your not incapable of achieving it your just not motivated to. you want to say you have a disability and throw yourself on the floor you will get lots of sympathy when you end up been bullied working in a min wage job where your colleagues will make fun of you and bully you proper. That is if your lucky, because you could end up been the "special one" and just in case you don't get what i mean I do not mean like Mourinho.
I mean like the special one no one wants to be.

You can play the mitigation card and the sympathy disability card but in the end the only one you will hurt is yourself.

I have made the same sort of stupid mistakes you have and now I really have to push against the grain to put it right. I have one advantage you don't though. I have well off parents so can live at home rent free whilst working full time to get the funds to put things right. I wouldn't call myself Privileged in grade sense though, because not only do I not get private school I don't have a teacher at all I have to self teach myself everything.

You can be in that situation too but without the easier rent situation and basically then your really up against it. Your capable of achieving and having a decent life but you risk blowing it up due to been immature.

others have to be politically correct because they can get in trouble for not been etc. I have no situation and i wish when i messed up there was someone kind enough to be blunt there was one tutor who actually was but it was a lone voice in the dark.

I'm been cruel to be kind. See me as the enemy now but you will regret it later.

I am not saying do pursue the degree or dont. I am saying either this is the right degree for you in which case work hard and make the most of it or it is not in which case save the funding whilst you can so you can do something more suited to yourself later.

but your plan just keeps you pinned down for the future, and makes everything harder.

its a stupid idea a really bad one.

ok so if you was me you would rather be homeless, signing on tomorow, than do this?

I would speak to the university about my situation and how I feel to see what advice/support they could give. I would think long and hard about what course I was on if this is what I want to do and or what I want in life and if this is a quality course etc. I would then decide if I want to stick it out or drop out so I can pursue a more worthy degree at a later stage.

If the former I would put my head down learn from the previous failure and work very hard to make sure I still came out with a strong degree. if I decided to drop out I would look for full time work keep accommodation if that is an option if not move out into a hostel for short term or rented accommodation and then think long and hard about what I want in life and how to get it.

I would also recommend growing a pair and speaking with your family. explain why you don't think the course is for you what your change of plans are and how you are going to go about putting it right. if they wont listen then tough i guess, but your better off making clear precise decisions now rather then screwing up your future.

thank you this is exactly what i was looking for you really opened my mind, thanks, and i just got a confidence boost for some reason, im just gonna drop out and try and get onto an apprenticeship
thanks