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I am an aspiring deck cadet.
The current UK funding has caused me some difficulty.
You can train via the HNC/D or foundation degree routes.
The HNC/D entry requirements are 4-5 Cs at GCSE (with some trainers requiring B's especially in maths).
The foundation degree requirements are the the same GCSEs with 120 uca's points at alevel and physics or maths at alevel.
I have the GCSE requirements (including B in maths) and the ucas requirements but i don't have maths or physics at alevel.
So i have meet the academic requirements for the HNC/D but not the foundation degree.
However
I already have a degree in a unrelated subject
and SSTG (safe ship training group) have told me that I cannot be considered for the HND/C course because I have a existing degree so funding is not available.
in short
i cannot train with a foundation degree because I dont have maths or physics at alevel.
and i cannot train with a HND/C because when i was younger I worked hard and pursued my education as far as I could by doing a degree when I finished school.
My family are low income so I have nobody who could pay the course fees for me.
I considered doing an alevel in maths or physics but...
This year the government decided that everyone over 24 who does Alevels should pay for it themselves. (google HE loans)
there is a student loan available but I am reluctant to use this because a person can only take out a fixed number of loans in a lifetime so if i do this and then fail to get accepted as a cadet I will be left with even fewer career options later in life.
Incidentally I originally had a C in maths GCSE so I decided to get my grade up to a B.
I could not take a GCSE course in maths because the year before i decided to do it the govonment stopped funding GCSES for anyone who has 5 C grades or better, as a result I had to self study and enter the exam as an external candidate (that means I was not sitting the exam as part of a course with any college). Very few colleges accept external candidates and I only managed to do it because one of the colleges which i asked made an admin error and had entered me onto the first paper of the gcse course before they realized their mistake. Fortunately When they discovered their mistake they agreed to honor it an enter me for all the papers.
This GCSE maths incident was caused simply because fundind has been cut and I am from a low income background. Dispite overcoming this I have now come across another barrier caused by the same thing.
Has anyone else come across these problems
and does anyone have any suggestions about what I should do
PS
Sorry about my spelling, I just bought a wrist rest and am getting used to it - so for now i sometimes hit the wrong key when typeing.
The current UK funding has caused me some difficulty.
You can train via the HNC/D or foundation degree routes.
The HNC/D entry requirements are 4-5 Cs at GCSE (with some trainers requiring B's especially in maths).
The foundation degree requirements are the the same GCSEs with 120 uca's points at alevel and physics or maths at alevel.
I have the GCSE requirements (including B in maths) and the ucas requirements but i don't have maths or physics at alevel.
So i have meet the academic requirements for the HNC/D but not the foundation degree.
However
I already have a degree in a unrelated subject
and SSTG (safe ship training group) have told me that I cannot be considered for the HND/C course because I have a existing degree so funding is not available.
in short
i cannot train with a foundation degree because I dont have maths or physics at alevel.
and i cannot train with a HND/C because when i was younger I worked hard and pursued my education as far as I could by doing a degree when I finished school.
My family are low income so I have nobody who could pay the course fees for me.
I considered doing an alevel in maths or physics but...
This year the government decided that everyone over 24 who does Alevels should pay for it themselves. (google HE loans)
there is a student loan available but I am reluctant to use this because a person can only take out a fixed number of loans in a lifetime so if i do this and then fail to get accepted as a cadet I will be left with even fewer career options later in life.
Incidentally I originally had a C in maths GCSE so I decided to get my grade up to a B.
I could not take a GCSE course in maths because the year before i decided to do it the govonment stopped funding GCSES for anyone who has 5 C grades or better, as a result I had to self study and enter the exam as an external candidate (that means I was not sitting the exam as part of a course with any college). Very few colleges accept external candidates and I only managed to do it because one of the colleges which i asked made an admin error and had entered me onto the first paper of the gcse course before they realized their mistake. Fortunately When they discovered their mistake they agreed to honor it an enter me for all the papers.
This GCSE maths incident was caused simply because fundind has been cut and I am from a low income background. Dispite overcoming this I have now come across another barrier caused by the same thing.
Has anyone else come across these problems
and does anyone have any suggestions about what I should do
PS
Sorry about my spelling, I just bought a wrist rest and am getting used to it - so for now i sometimes hit the wrong key when typeing.
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