Hi all
Well, as any of you who have been following my my blog you will be aware that I have been trying (and struggling) to get through to my local college about applying for access this Sept. I have left numerous messages over tha past few weeks as unfortunately the college is almost 20 miles away so wasn't easy enough just to "pop in", anyway....finally a call came through on Weds from them. Annoyingly I'd left the house about 5 mins earlier as was en-route to my Uncle's funeral

My husband was home minding the boys so took a message and they said they would post an application form!!

Anyway, it arrived today so I'm just filling it out.

The course is part time over 2 years (I can't afford to do it full time over a year because of childcare costs at the moment)

Hopefully they will let me know about interviews soon...

The course looks quite good, it's access to caring professions and core studies include english & study skills, I.T and maths and then you choose 3 modules out of the following:
Sociology, psychology, health issues, human physiology or social welfare.

My question is...which of these options do you think is more relevant to midwifery? For those ladies who are doing or have completed their access course which options did you take with your access course?

I am thinking definitely health issues and human physiology but unsure what to take as a 3rd.

Also they offer students the chance to study GCSE equivalents in maths, English and science....is it worth "topping up" ? English I got C for my GCSE's in Eng Lit and Lang but struggled in maths and only got an F and my chosen science subject of physics was also a very poor E...oh how I wished I'd tried harder at school!!

Any thoughts?

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Karen
Starting access course Sept 08 (hopefully!!)

Ahhh..now this is great news!! WOOHOO!

I am so pleased for you and hoped it would come soon (did i post that on your blog? I think so?)

Anyway re maths and English, I 'd do them too I did English at level 2 and maths at level 2 at a local adult education centre. It is certianly worth gaining the credits and to get a back into English, grammar, punctuation etc.

For mine I chose social sciences (psychology and sociology) biology (some plant but mainly human) English and I.T. Maths I did on a saturday morning somewhere else.

Really pleased your getting there, shout if you need any info or help or anything!

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The access course i am just finishing is supposed to be for people going into the health sector , some are going on to nursing some midwifery some odp and some social workers.

We done study skills , app of number ( maths!) physiology and health (biology!) psychology and sociology. When i went for my enrollment (sp?) the lady said they were the best options.

I am doing the fast track one though and there wasnt as much choice as on the modular one thats spread over two years .

Could you not ring your uni and ask them what you should take ??

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Will be applying in september for 2009 intake !!!

Really pleased that you are finally getting somewhere.

My access course had sociology and psychology in it , so one of those would be good. I would also check how many credits they are all worth as we needed 48 credits at level three to use the access to apply to Uni.

Good luck with the application.

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Coffeebean xx


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