Mature students

[welcometomanchester]

Has anyone done this? The presiding miss goat boy is 26 in September, never went to college or uni when she was 'that' age, but now would like to get on a full time undergraduate degree course, probably starting September 2012. She thinks her experience of work life will stand her in good stead, in lieu of academic qualifications (she has a decent set of GCSEs and a couple of NVQs).

She's really up for it, but I'm not so sure, I hated uni when i was 19 (some years ago, now), felt i had to apply because i felt obligated to do so by my family and peers, even though i had a slightly mixed up set of A levels and absolutely no idea what i wanted to do at uni, or what i wanted to do with my life. Anyway, i dropped out in 2nd year with nothing but £6k of debt to show for it. This might be colouring my viewpoint.

Has anyone done full time uni course later in life? If so, any experiences to share, or recommendations about funding it etc? Cheers

Tell her to pop round to my flat ill show her what's what.

 

[stonerblue]

I did an A-level english course at college for 6 months when i was 36. I applied to Salford Uni at the same time and was given an interview that consisted of a half hour chat with the department head. I was told there and then that as lon g as i got the A-level i was in.
Mature students only really need to show that they can finish the degree and not drop out half way through. The uni's get better funding if they have a higher number of mature students (well they did then anyway).
I had my degree by the time i was 40.

 

[PistonBlue]

I did the Open Uni, found them to be excellent. There are plenty of opportunities to meet the other students on the course, regular workshops and so on. You tutor is easily available on the telephone and the course content is first class

 

[foley87]

ive been thinking of doing something similar in sports journalism