Part time uni student loan?

jaycee0408

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Why are you going part-time on a course that's often only one day a week of attendance anyway? You would normally top-up your attendance with work experience, which can be paid if you are employable in the field. You are then entitled to a full student loan and maintenance grant - I know someone who holds down a full-time job and is on the foundation degree 'full-time'.

How is that possible to have a full time job and attend full time uni? The course I am doing is one day and one evening of attendance.

Oldernotwiser

jaycee0408 wrote: »

How is that possible to have a full time job and attend full time uni? The course I am doing is one day and one evening of attendance.

It depends on the subject and the way the course is timetabled. There are even many Honours degrees that only have a very few timetabled hours.

MrsBartolozzi

Don't know if this applies everywhere, but in Scotland you can apply for a loan if you are part time, but doing 90 credits a year. (sadly I didn't find out about this til I was nearly finished, but that's life).

Oldernotwiser

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Don't know if this applies everywhere, but in Scotland you can apply for a loan if you are part time, but doing 90 credits a year. (sadly I didn't find out about this til I was nearly finished, but that's life).

In England you can apply for a fee grant, but nothing else.

Fire_Fox

jaycee0408 wrote: »

How is that possible to have a full time job and attend full time uni? The course I am doing is one day and one evening of attendance.

Anything is possible if you are willing to sacrifice for it, there are seven days and seven nights in a week! I know people who have studied days having worked in nightclub til 4am; I held down two jobs for several months last year working them both on a Wednesday. Book all your annual leave during semester, accept you won't have much of a life outside college, work-flexi-time or job share.

Foundation degrees are usually one full day of attendance, with the expectation that you do one to two days of relevant work experience (which you formally plan and write assignments about) plus at least two days of independent study per week. Several students on my course are doing the work experience element at their usual or new place of employment, agreeing novel learning outcomes with their mentor.

This year I worked two jobs during the first two months of semester then have worked sixteen hours paid, and half a day a week 'voluntary' to gain experience in an allied field. But one of the other mature students has a family and thus a full-time job in a managerial role; he has somehow managed to cram it all in! :eek: He has missed half days of college a few times, as he doesn't want to work weekends due to his family.