Completely ridiculous. I’m in this grey area. I’m doing a full time OU course. It’s at least as much work as in person learning, and perhaps more given how much time I spend googling stuff that I could have answered by simply raising my hand in a real class.
But for some reason, I don’t need living expenses, for the simple fact I do it online? I don’t understand the thinking other than “That’s a minority, and fuck minorities”.
4 years of loans per person. How would this work with 5 year sandwich courses? Maintenance loans?
I’m guessing this is separate to the current student loan setup.
This will be another money making racket for tory donors. Loans at 60…
Yet more Tory stupidity. No to remote in this day and age? *****
It is also frustrating to see the four year cap, and the upper age limit being 60. I did my degree 30 years ago, and my Masters more than a decade past.
I’m a prime candidate for new-skilling/re-skilling/up-skilling but will only have access to enough for a yearlong course. That’s hardly “lifelong”. If I’ve paid off a loan and want to take another, I should be able to do so … even if I’m 90!
Well it’s only taken 12 years but the Tories have actually proposed a policy that has the possibility to improve my life. I think I need to go have a lie down.
Although I don’t understand why students doing full-time remote learning won’t be eligible for maintenance loans, that just seems like counter-productive penny pinching.
How is it an Engineering degree required 25+ contact hours a week where as some other courses were doing 6-8.
Seems barmy to me. Who is subsidising who; what the hell are they paying for when theyre in for less than an hour a day?
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Completely ridiculous. I’m in this grey area. I’m doing a full time OU course. It’s at least as much work as in person learning, and perhaps more given how much time I spend googling stuff that I could have answered by simply raising my hand in a real class.
But for some reason, I don’t need living expenses, for the simple fact I do it online? I don’t understand the thinking other than “That’s a minority, and fuck minorities”.
4 years of loans per person. How would this work with 5 year sandwich courses? Maintenance loans?
I’m guessing this is separate to the current student loan setup.
This will be another money making racket for tory donors. Loans at 60…
Yet more Tory stupidity. No to remote in this day and age? *****
It is also frustrating to see the four year cap, and the upper age limit being 60. I did my degree 30 years ago, and my Masters more than a decade past.
I’m a prime candidate for new-skilling/re-skilling/up-skilling but will only have access to enough for a yearlong course. That’s hardly “lifelong”. If I’ve paid off a loan and want to take another, I should be able to do so … even if I’m 90!
Well it’s only taken 12 years but the Tories have actually proposed a policy that has the possibility to improve my life. I think I need to go have a lie down.
Although I don’t understand why students doing full-time remote learning won’t be eligible for maintenance loans, that just seems like counter-productive penny pinching.
How is it an Engineering degree required 25+ contact hours a week where as some other courses were doing 6-8.
Seems barmy to me. Who is subsidising who; what the hell are they paying for when theyre in for less than an hour a day?