IA's Debt/Life/Little bit of Everything Diary...

poodlehorse

Well done you!

marksandsparksgal

Go for it, you'll get top marks and be teaching it next!

immoral_angeluk

mrsspendalot wrote: »

Yay, well done! Oh, and you will get to chat online to other OU students and they have LOADS of chat rooms on their conferencing suite, lol. They even have a conference just for pagans

To get the funding, I think, you will have to link the course to a degree (even if you don't actually want to take a full degree) so link it to an Open Degree when the form comes (email me if you want a hand with it all, I'm a veteran OU form filler lol).

Oooh I didn't realise that.. does it matter that I didn't like it when I registered?

mrsspendalot

nope - you can link it on the form that comes. MSN me when the stuff comes and I will help you It's something to do with the way the government funds HE, and you have to be seen to be working towards a degree or qualification in order to get the funding - or at least that always used to be the case. Registering online really just registers your interest - the forms that come are the important bits.

immoral_angeluk

mrsspendalot wrote: »

nope - you can link it on the form that comes. MSN me when the stuff comes and I will help you It's something to do with the way the government funds HE, and you have to be seen to be working towards a degree or qualification in order to get the funding - or at least that always used to be the case. Registering online really just registers your interest - the forms that come are the important bits.

Thanks I appreciate the help.... even Ste's looking at OU courses now he's realised we'd get funding

mrsspendalot

I really cannot recommend the OU highly enough - I could never have afforded to do a degree with them and their fantastic funding! It opens up a whole new world.

debrag

I feel the courses are very limited for choice I could do my crim degree though but its with psych. I could do a degree in molecular science but think I'd have to go away for a week or something for lab work.

The funding - you have to pay it back through the OU right? The part-time grant from SLC you don't, or can you apply for this through the OU?

mrsspendalot

No the funding does not have to be repaid - it is a grant.

debrag

oh so its the grant from the government not the finance thing from the OU. How much does your income have to be to get the funding?

mrsspendalot

Some of the courses can be a little restrictive if they have a compulsory residential school, but I have just avoided anything like that. I guess it depends what you want to do and what other options are available to you. For some of us there is no alternative to OU study - there is no way I could have gone to a face-to-face university financially or otherwise with 3 small children.