Psychology conversion

I think this sounds manageable. Bear in mind you won't need to physically attend lecturers so it is likely that you'll be able to fit everything in because time spent studying is often very objective on distance type learning courses anyway.

I think the funding and the choice of subject in view of your undergraduate degree is an excellent opportunity and it would be a shame to miss it.

I'm hoping to do an online PgCert (or more if I can afford it!) in Sociology. I've done an MA and am finishing an MSc so am hoping that doing this level of study online should be pretty balanced, especially because a lot of masters courses are coursework based which I think works well in terms of being able to do a bit at a time and then making a big dent in the work on a day off.

I had a place on an online psychology masters but couldn't take it up because the option to leave with a PgCert or PgDip didn't exist and that's something I needed really as someone who might be able to pay for an amount of a course but whose earning potential is too sporadic to know if she can afford the full course. Shame really because it looked well interesting but because I want to teach, I think the sociology A level papers look like something I would prefer to teach so that informed my decision too.

I love how online learning is so up and coming, there are quite a few unis that do psychology but for sociology I had to look further.

I'm on my phone so can't quote you beanie but I totally agree with your last paragraph. I too studied all of my previous uni courses in the northwest and love living there but it's not somewhere I can afford to live under my own steam (back living with parents now).

Staffordshire university for sociology. Psychology you've got Leeds Beckett (I was disappointed to have to turn my offer down with them), MMU, Roehampton, Uni of Liverpool.

My other half has just completed a Psychology conversion course with Staffordshire University. It was entirely online (several tests and 2 essays over the space of a year. She's applying for MSc courses at present. She found it quite good, but feedback from staff was pretty poor.

Ah ok, so she didn't have to go into the uni for the tests? That's a shame about the feedback aspect, that helped me alot as an undergrad

My other half has just completed a Psychology conversion course with Staffordshire University. It was entirely online (several tests and 2 essays over the space of a year. She's applying for MSc courses at present. She found it quite good, but feedback from staff was pretty poor.

Thank you for getting in touch.

She emailed the tutors several times throughout the year and didn't receive a single response.
She felt that the marking (especially on the first paper) was misleading as the tutor's overall comment was rather negative, yet throughout the paper, most of the comments were very complimentary and positive (she scored 65%).
Both of her papers were reviewed by several people working in the field (including a PhD student and a Senior Professor of Bio-Psychology) and she was told they were both very strong papers, so she was surprised to have received 65% and 56% (respectively) on them.

At the end of the course, she emailed the tutor regarding a grading query and again, didn't hear back, which has severely delayed her application for MSc courses.

Thank you for looking into the matter. It's nice to know someone at the university is looking out for its students.