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Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
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(Original post by zombiepig)
Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
And if you can do a bit of study at work, then that is a huge bonus!Before enrolling onto the course, I did a lot of research - universities and distance learning access course providers. I contacted the Uni I wanted to attend and gave them a list of all the modules I would be studying on the Access course I was thinking about and they agreed that it matched the entry requirements for the course and told me the grades I would need to get to be considered. I am a quarter of the way through the course and I have just sent off my UCAS application for 2021 - eeek!
The course is quite intense, but I am enjoying it and know full well that it is preparing me for academic study at degree level.
I wish you all the best in your journey and hope this has helped somewhat!
Stacey
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(Original post by zombiepig)
Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
Have you ever done a degree course before? If not you could get funding from Student Finance England even if it is a postgraduate course. I work fulltime and since switching jobs from retail to a term time only job I do most of my study in the evening and at weekends. I don't make every live lecture but they are recorded for me to watch back when I am free and I can email questions in to my lecturer beforehand if I want something answering during them. My course is part time so we are expected to do 20 hours of study a week for about 10 weeks and then get a 3 week study break after assignment hand in, however some weeks I do study a lot less than others and vice versa!
Hope that gives you a bit of an insight :-)
Abigail
Arden University Student Ambassador
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(Original post by zombiepig)
Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
Hi everyone,
I'm currently thinking about starting a distance learning course and then progressing onto uni. The problem is that I'm working full time and I can't really afford to take part time work or quit my job.
However I work night time security so I can spend a lot of time studying while I'm at work, as most of the time I'm guarding a static site and being undisturbed. I can probably meet the quota of hours required to study but my worry is that sometimes I won't be able to attend certain lectures as I work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. (I'll be able to attend on my days off work however.)
I'm wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation before and if it can be done as I'm committed to making it work but I'm cautious about jumping in without getting a proper idea. (The course I'm wanting to study is Nursing.)
Thanks!
I'm currently doing a distance learning university course so I could give you some tips.
Firstly, in terms of your nursing aspirations, it might be best talking to a local FE College to see if you can do an Access to HE course as a blended learning option (this is the way the market is going). The purely online version of the courses by some providers have a very high drop out and poor achievement rate (although some are decent).
If you are going into Nursing, at degree level this will involve a placement, typically for around 50% of your course working on the front line.
In terms of distance learning, I typically spend about 14 hours a week studying (which includes working on assignments), it is different for different learners, Typically we have a 10 week assignment cycle and then we get 3 weeks rest whilst the work is marked
Marc
Arden University Student Ambassador
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Thank you for your advice everyone, I've realised that if I were to go to Uni with the amount of bursary that I would recieve through a maintenance loan plus part time hours would be a similar wage to what I'm doing now. So I'm going to do a distance Access Course until I get the qualification then just switch to part time work and take out the maintenance loan. I didn't realise mature students could still get the maintenance loan 🤣
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(Original post by zombiepig)
Thank you for your advice everyone, I've realised that if I were to go to Uni with the amount of bursary that I would recieve through a maintenance loan plus part time hours would be a similar wage to what I'm doing now. So I'm going to do a distance Access Course until I get the qualification then just switch to part time work and take out the maintenance loan. I didn't realise mature students could still get the maintenance loan 🤣
Thank you for your advice everyone, I've realised that if I were to go to Uni with the amount of bursary that I would recieve through a maintenance loan plus part time hours would be a similar wage to what I'm doing now. So I'm going to do a distance Access Course until I get the qualification then just switch to part time work and take out the maintenance loan. I didn't realise mature students could still get the maintenance loan 🤣
Good luck! Stacey
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What course were you looking to take? I've come across people who did a lot of studying working security jobs.
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