Bursary for Access Course to Nursing.

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Also check this out..

https://www.gov.uk/further-education-courses/financial-help

GlasweJen

Depending on where you live if she already has good GCSE/standard grades (preferably A levels/highers) if she can get a job in a hospital as a healthcare support worker some hospitals will put her through the open university nursing degree after a certain number of years service. It's brand new in our hospital area and talk of the wards as you keep your job (and your wage) while you study so the places are like gold dust so you need impeccable attendance, excellent references from your charge and lead nurses and you want to prove you've done "extra" courses like venepuncture, cannulation, hand hygiene champion, basically you want to be indispensable as the work will be putting a huge investment in these places and will want to choose the ones who are most likely to pass.

I've not been along to the information seminar but I know our hospital will want the money for fees back from anyone who fails to qualify within 7 years as that's put some people off putting their name forward.

Soph1988

I’m currently doing an access course around working full time in social sciences and psychology via Learn Direct. It can be hard work juggling both doing it in your own time, but it’s not THAT hard! (And I have zero formal qualifications prior to this...) And it’s funded with an advanced learner loan which I pay back once I finish the course if I’m earning over 25k, but if you go to Uni after completing the course that gets wiped off.

A distance course seems your best option here - learndirect do one for nursing too!