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Living Costs When Returning to Education?

ManyStripes

Hi!

I'd like to return to education of some kind this year, but I've got the problem of income for living costs.  I'm trying to find out about that, but not very successfully, so far.

I'm not looking to go to university this year.  I'd really like to do a one year course in something I'd find useful and interesting.  But it's a question of income during that time.

As for part time work, I'm stuck without references (really no references), and I don't really see how I'm going to have any references soon enough to be able to support myself during study that way.  That's why I'm hoping there's some other way I can survive while studying.

I've tried university before, unsuccessfully, before I had Asperger's diagnosed, and I'm really not ready for that again.

So, what I'm looking for is some kind of funding or something to cover my living costs while spending a year studying in some way.  And, right now, I'm quite open-minded about what kind of stuff to study.

Any ideas or pointers?

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  • Sorry if you've not found my reply at all helpful or relevant.  Your initial email identified barriers to work being the reason for looking at education.  I genuinely offered suggestions for what I considered possible routes for someone with no references as you say.  I think it's fair that replies have responded to this part, even if you didn't intend it as the primary query, and that this comes from a place of caring to help you to find a way forward and taking time to send a message.  I would hope that any reply (barring any offensive ones, of course) would be seen as being well intended.

    It may be that there are no easy answers for covering your living costs.  The only things I can think of are:

    • speaking to the university/institution you'd like to study at to find out about any funds they may have (e.g. hardship funds)
    • gaining a scholarship (which I guess would be very difficult to secure and impossible for a 2015 start)

    I hope you find a solution to your situation.  Given that a soluntion to your situation hasn't materialised on this forum you may need to enquire somewhere that routinely deals with these kinds of questions (which are not unique to autistic adults).

    All the best.

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  • Sorry if you've not found my reply at all helpful or relevant.  Your initial email identified barriers to work being the reason for looking at education.  I genuinely offered suggestions for what I considered possible routes for someone with no references as you say.  I think it's fair that replies have responded to this part, even if you didn't intend it as the primary query, and that this comes from a place of caring to help you to find a way forward and taking time to send a message.  I would hope that any reply (barring any offensive ones, of course) would be seen as being well intended.

    It may be that there are no easy answers for covering your living costs.  The only things I can think of are:

    • speaking to the university/institution you'd like to study at to find out about any funds they may have (e.g. hardship funds)
    • gaining a scholarship (which I guess would be very difficult to secure and impossible for a 2015 start)

    I hope you find a solution to your situation.  Given that a soluntion to your situation hasn't materialised on this forum you may need to enquire somewhere that routinely deals with these kinds of questions (which are not unique to autistic adults).

    All the best.

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