I always wanted to finish my degree but it was one of those things you just keep putting off, until one day I realised this was getting ridiculous, if I didn’t start it soon I was never going to finish it! But the funny thing is, having done it this way round I also feel that I’m getting much more out of it, because I don’t think I would have been able to really "get" everything we’ve been learning with no life experience beforehand - it would all have been academic but I wouldn’t really have been able to put it all into context.

I have spoken to many conventional university graduates about this course and they all say the same thing - that if they could go back to university now, they would appreciate it and understand it much more than they did back then, and they think distance learning is a great way to do it. In fact, many of my friends are actually doing just that, and re-training for new careers by distance learning.