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Open University

Kate Kestrel

Has anyone on here got any experience of studying with the Open University? My son is thinking of doing a course with them - and we’d love to hear of anyone’s experience of studying with them, and whether or not they are very helpful and supportive of disabled students? Also - did anyone apply for a maintenance grant for the O.U because of their disability- and did yo7 get the grant if you did apply? Thanks :) 

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  • As OU is oficially classed as a part time course there is no financial help at all, you can't even get student discounts on council tax. WHat support you get will very much depend on the course, the tutors etc, some are helpful some are not. As you won't be on site, there may be limits as to what help you can get.

    An ex of mine did a degree with them and was very disapointed, there were a lot of things that he felt were not made clear and he ended up feeling that it was missold, he stuck with it because he was only really dong it for the piece of paper, but some of his fellow students were really angry that what they thought would be a pathway to a job in computing actually wans't because the language they were being taught in wan't used in business.

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  • As OU is oficially classed as a part time course there is no financial help at all, you can't even get student discounts on council tax. WHat support you get will very much depend on the course, the tutors etc, some are helpful some are not. As you won't be on site, there may be limits as to what help you can get.

    An ex of mine did a degree with them and was very disapointed, there were a lot of things that he felt were not made clear and he ended up feeling that it was missold, he stuck with it because he was only really dong it for the piece of paper, but some of his fellow students were really angry that what they thought would be a pathway to a job in computing actually wans't because the language they were being taught in wan't used in business.

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