Flexible Study
Charlotte:
December 20th, 2006
I had a Christmas card yesterday from an American friend who has just graduated after four and a half years of study. It seems that in America there is a lot of leeway in how long you can take to complete your degree and you graduate when you have earned sufficient credits. It made me think that it would make financial sense for students in the UK if there was more flexibility here. Now that top-up fees have been introduced, more and more students are having to take part-time work and yet are faced with the knowledge that the more hours they work the lower their chances are of gaining a First or Upper Second. If they were able to spread their studies over four or five years life would be better for them. At the moment part-time degrees are few and far between and this has put many Sixth Formers off applying to go to University.