*Weekend Chat 5/6th Sept ****Happy Birthday Snags and Pania

sallyx

Are you doing it with OU or bricks and mortar uni scaredy?
Im just not sure what quals I will need to get in...need to start looking seriously. I mean I would love to get on a BEd teaching course but I can't see them taking me without having some kind of foundation degree, A levels, experience

postingalwaysposting

beanielou wrote: »

Im thinking about doing a wee OU c ourse to prove Im not brain dead.
PAP~How did you get on with that money one?
Was it expensive?

Beainie I havent completed it. It was free due to my income however I didnt find the style/Ou all that good. It all came to a head when the last assignment I had back wasnt competely marked, the first one was the same. Anyways I put my previous marks in their 'prediction' thing and I was grade a fail and would need to have completed my tma and ema at 100% to pass. So I kinda gave up, I wouldnt do an Ou course again :rolleyes: however loads have had success' with the OU, IA being one of them

scaredy_cat

i have just completed and Access course - https://ava.qaa.ac.uk/SubSites/PublicSearch/search.aspx

and cos i was on low income, i got the course fees funded through the college.

Sally, some degree courses will accept a diploma from an access course for their entry requirements - mine has.

Ames

Pap, I agree with the OU, they're great at support and pastoral stuff, but academically they leave a lot to be desired. It drives me mad that I can't do independent research if I'm interested in things, and the marking seems very slipshod - I got a good mark for an essay where I thought the painting was of Paris and it was somewhere else, and got bad marks for essays which I thought were great. Feedback's poor too. But it's my only option, I can't afford a part time degree at a bricks and mortar uni and can't manage full time. I'm just looking at it as a stepping stone to a masters, I've already checked that OU will be accepted for it. I just need to raise my grades somehow, get it into my head not to disagree with what the books say! (and not leaving them till the last minute will probably help too!)

spud30

I have news !!!!!!


















We officially dont have a hole in our bedroom floor anymore :T :j :T

Ames

I didn't know you had one before! It's good that it's gone.

I'll leave the smutty remarks to those who are better at it than me...

scaredy_cat

yay Spud!!!!! :T:T:T

SuzySu

Spill Spud......

<sorry, case of trigger finger before I had scrolled down and read the whole post properly>

scaredy_cat

Sally, there were a few people on our course who were, with not trying to be rude - less educated, and they received help with the essays and stuff.

Buffythedebtslayer

That's good Spud. was you or hubby person?

I have a very tidy room! It looks great. well chuffed! Wish house was on an hour later cos then I could have got ready for work tomorrow

but I shall - Flylady says so!