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does anyone know much about it here?

Im looking into it... I have only just found out about it, i have been waiting for my son to grow up for years so that i could start some kind of education!

It depends what courses as a lot of people have moaned where I work that the variety of courses isnt that good for such a large organisation serving the majority of adult learners.

What are you looking to study?

Please say your doing councelling or something towards that? You would be good at it as you Miss Angry are bloody good at advice and listening.  Not that us men have feelings!

Good on you

To be honest i have no idea im just looking through now, something along the line of sociology and psychology.
I really had no idea that i could get funding for such thing that i could do at home!

If you didn't want to do something as full on as a degree then there are organisations which offer NVQ's etc. in various subjects funded by the EU.

They also offer NVQ level 3's to Small to Medium sized businesses.

My sister works for them, as an employee you are allowed to study what you want for free - she's learning spanish.

I dont think advising you on how best to keep a bird counts as counseling :p

Jokes aside though it's something i have always been interested in.... im well excited, like a little kid who has just found a secret world  :soapy tit wank:

  I've a lady friend who's doing a degree in sociology....she's been doing it for a while now, because you do it in modules, which are worth points, you can pick and choose when you do the work.

  My main recommendation would be to chose something in which you're genuinely interested ....rather tahn just any old ology

soapy tit wank

you ever thought of a dance career? i could advise :D

 Nah mate....I know I'm a bit if a natural like....and have heard you're Travoltaesque yourself BB, but thanks for  the offer.

Some other time reg, my mate Ed did a dance in Kings on sat that was so like travolta I was gobsmacked, he ended up dancimng with two blondes who were loving him.

As Mrs Jones once said 'Ology. Ology' your a scientist with an 'Ology - with due deference to Maureen Lipman.  Not sure thats verbatim, but true anyway, considering that my Mother in Law was a "Mrs Jones".

Anyway in my opinion - worth nowt if truth be known - sociology and Psychology are the degree equivalents oif knitting and Fillum/Media Studies (etc.  Get a job for chrissakes)

I've done a couple of OU courses and I would have to say that as an organization they are absolutely top drawer. A lot of the courses are not cheap but in terms of content, course materials and their tutors I can't speak highly enough of them.

t'is hard work when you're working full time though.


Oh yes.


I almost forgot.



FACT!


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When I did my degree - all those years ago, the OU books were the only ones I understood - a bit like Noddy meets the Organic Chemist or Big Ears struggles with Quantum Mechanics - mind you this was before Schrodingers cat was born!

I have to say, I do miss coming home from the pub pissed (obviously) and the only stuff left to watch was the Open University where you would get crusty old boys like this spouting on about Soviet cement production techniques between 1954 and 1962 and such like. This one's a bit too well dressed but he was the best I could find:

http://mubs.mdx.ac.uk/Staff/Standard_pages/philip16.JPG

If you want to do counselling we could study to gever Miss Angry

 Surely one of them must have been spare for a man of your calibre....

Sod that, old enough to be my mother, I was looking for you reg as needed a drinking partner

  You're the third person to tell me they were lookling foir me on Sat in Kings,  shame I could have bought you that pint.  I was otherwise engaged  :P

You dirty dog! Do you owe me a pint?! thats a first

Thanks for that :)

The reason i had never thought of doing one before was the expence... Turns out as i am only able to work 30 hours a week at the local shop im on such a low wage that they will fund it all for me...
As a working single parent i get the earn the same amount of money as someone sat at home on benefits so i think its time i got something back  :|

you can have my job if you like.


anyway, psychology is nowhere near as interesting as you'd imagine :? film studies is the way forward, ignore jim!

Working in RM?

RM software is a nightmare!!

Educational psychology is the way ahead.

I covered it as my secondary university course and it’s an absolute gem plus the material actually helped increase the standard of my work.

so far it's keeping me pretty busy at work which is a good thing as far as i'm concerned!

The girlfriend is doing Law, and it seems like a handy way of doing it... it's all essays with athe odd exam thrown in at the Pilgrim Centre, from what i can tell...