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Thinking of doing OU? Warning over fees and funding changes next year
heretolearn_2
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If you've been thinking about doing an Open University study, then don't hang about, register for a course starting this year.
From next year their fees and funding change completely. Courses will be much more expensive (MUCH!) and there will no longer been the grants available, only loans.
However, there are transitional arrangements so that as long as you are studying this year and your study is linked to a higher qualification such as degree/diploma, and you continue studying each year until your qualification is complete (simplified explanation -see their site for full details) they will hold your fees at the current level AND you will still be able to access grants under the current scheme (subject to income).
So if you are going to do it - you have to do it now or it becomes just as expensive as any other university.
If you've been thinking about doing an Open University study, then don't hang about, register for a course starting this year.
From next year their fees and funding change completely. Courses will be much more expensive (MUCH!) and there will no longer been the grants available, only loans.
However, there are transitional arrangements so that as long as you are studying this year and your study is linked to a higher qualification such as degree/diploma, and you continue studying each year until your qualification is complete (simplified explanation -see their site for full details) they will hold your fees at the current level AND you will still be able to access grants under the current scheme (subject to income).
So if you are going to do it - you have to do it now or it becomes just as expensive as any other university.
Cash not ash from January 2nd 2011: £2565.:j
OU student: A103 , A215 , A316 all done. Currently A230 all leading to an English Literature degree.
Any advice given is as an individual, not as a representative of my firm.
OU student: A103 , A215 , A316 all done. Currently A230 all leading to an English Literature degree.
Any advice given is as an individual, not as a representative of my firm.
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do you have a link for this, please?A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0
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Thanks, it's for England only. I was concerned as I have a friend studying OU.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0
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