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

mrsspendalot

yep thats right

mrsspendalot

Also, the social science one can be taken as a 60 point course (DD100) or as 2 30 point courses if you are more limited for time (DD121 and DD122). They result in exactly the same thing at the end - the Cert Soc Sci. I am doing DD121 in May because I didn't want a heavy workload over the summer.

debrag

immoral_angeluk wrote: »

So let me see if I understand it rights...things like the you and your money and social sciences would make up 90 points of the 360 if I linked them to the open degree.. and I would just have to do other courses to make up the 270 points?

To get a degree you have to get the required points at each level

choccyface2006

mrsspendalot wrote: »

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01T189

Digital photography course??

Yes - that great thanks

Sarah x

immoral_angeluk

Thinking about it as nice as a proper degree would be I ideally want to get these under my belt before the girls go to school as this is my plan at restart my career So I'm thinking of doing the You and Your Money from may til Oct, then the introduction to social sciences one from feb 09 to oct 09... hopefully by which time I'll be in something job wise which will get me some experience Don't want to put too much on my plate and I think those too would stand me in good stead

barnaby-bear

immoral_angeluk wrote: »

So let me see if I understand it rights...things like the you and your money and social sciences would make up 90 points of the 360 if I linked them to the open degree.. and I would just have to do other courses to make up the 270 points?

Just link it to the open degree for now so get the funding, see what you make of the first course (it's 30 points = 1/3 of a full time student) and what ideas/opportunities arise then have another think but nothing to stop you saying you are working towards a degree - it's true...

notanothergreyhair

Lucy1982 wrote: »

I love studying and really want to do another degree if I can.

Please, please, please can you give me some of that enthusiasm

Just caught up on your new diary IA, it must be annoying for you that you will have to keep starting a new one. Mine was on about page 3 when you started your last one, I think it is still on page 3 now...you put me to shame!

Hope you are well.

NAGH

immoral_angeluk

notanothergreyhair wrote: »

Please, please, please can you give me some of that enthusiasm

Just caught up on your new diary IA, it must be annoying for you that you will have to keep starting a new one. Mine was on about page 3 when you started your last one, I think it is still on page 3 now...you put me to shame!

Hope you are well.

NAGH

What can I say..I have a lot of fans... :rotfl:

Lucy1982_2

notanothergreyhair wrote: »

Please, please, please can you give me some of that enthusiasm
NAGH

I just love learning new things! I think it keeps you healthy to be able to exercise your brain a bit, even if it's just watching a tv documentary or reading a book.

There is a whole world out there and I want to know as much about it as possible!

Toto

barnaby-bear wrote: »

The point is you can pretty much pick and choose what you want... I only suggested the maths one as I thought it might help you get over your maths phobias:o...
But really just because something didn't click at school doesn't mean OU teaches in that way, a lot of girls slip through the school system because they are reasonably well behaved, don't do *badly* but get mediocre marks, so just don't warrant the extra effort that the delinquent fire-starter does. I don't see how you can claim innumeracy when you are constantly juggling all the figures, APRs and budgets... that is maths just in a different context. Under-achieving at GCSE is very different to inability... and to be honest did you have much of a reason to be interested at 15? Whereas if it's useful for getting a specific job or doing something it's suddenly more relevent...

but of course you don't have to do specific modules - there are some music technology ones and quite a few on housing, social policy and childcare which are things you have experience in....

Barnaby is dead right. I was hopeless at maths in school, I really thought I would never be any good at it. When I started my degree I was horrified because I had to do a maths module, I threw my hands up in the air and said, well that's my degree screwed.

I had a great teacher though who made it seem dead easy and on my first test I asked him to re- look at it because he'd given me an A, but it was right. All the way through I got As and A+ I was reall pee-ed off one day when I got an A-. I suddenly found I was really grasping it all and seriously considered changing to the maths degree. I didn't though because there was a really hot guy on my course :rotfl: