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According to Coelacanth anyway

Hi, hope you don't mind me dropping past, I've been discussing issues surrounding going for another qualification, by distance learning, with Coelacanth and you were mentioned!

Mainly my query is about these graduate conversion quals you can get. I have a honours degree in computing and am thinking of trying for a degree in psychology. Do you know if these conversion quals that let you onto the degree with some prior attainment are any good? Have you done any? (not specifically for these subjkects, but in general). How have you found prioor accreditation working?

I wish I could help, Ictoan, but I think that you or Coelacanth may have jumped to an understandable but mistaken conclusion. At 45 I am certainly a senior scholar, but this is my first degree. When I was a more conventional age for a University student, I was far more interested in punk rock and - it's taken me this long to get seriously keen on learning!

I did have a kind of prior accreditation issue: I had clocked up 160 credits over the previous two years as a part-time student on another combined studies course. When I decided to turn full-time, I applied to switch to an Interdisciplinary Human Studies degree. But the Uni said that they couldn't accept the credits from the counselling, assertiveness training and stress management modules I'd done towards admission to Year Two of the IHS course, as these were deemed to be 'personal development' courses, and thus somehow incompatible with the IHS course (I have no idea why). However, it's made little practical difference. I'm now working in much the same areas of study as I would have been on that course, just under the banner of Combined Studies.