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The ANGRY thread v2

It's here.

Fucking bastard Open University, or more specifically one of their advisers.

I have spent the last six months wondering what the fuck I'm going to do with the rest of my life. At times it has been pretty bad. But the last week or so things have been coming together. I'd decided I was going to complete my OU degree, and I was going to apply for credit transfer from my previous studies (completed first year of Uni = Certificate of Higher Education), this would mean I wouldn't have to do the numpty "Level 1" courses on what computers look like and where the Internet is stored. I spoke to an OU adviser about it last Tuesday and he led me to believe it would be fine, told me what forms I needed to fill in and how I need to get an academic transcript from my old uni.

So I've spent a fair bit of last week sorting out forms and speaking to my old uni about getting this academic transcript. That wasn't straightforward as they have a different process from the OU so I had to keep phoning back and forth to get a proper answer on what I should do. Well on Friday I thought I had it nailed, got the forms into old uni plus the £10 fee, only problem being that OU need to have the stuff in by this Thursday and old uni have "5 day turnaround", so I was stressing that I wouldn't get transcript in time to send to the OU. But today I spoke to old uni and they said it was all ready and I arranged to go and pick it up from them tomorrow morning, all tickety boo for me to send off the application to the OU tomorrow Special Delivery and meet their deadline, and save myself a year of study I don't actually need to do.

Now I'm ready to complete the OU forms, and it says I can't fucking apply for credit transfer once I've begun studying with the OU. I've been studying with them on and off for years. So I've been wasting my time.

Why did the adviser not fucking tell me this last week? I've wasted a whole load of time on this and £10 which I don't care about but it is wasted. But most of all I was starting to think I was finally making some fucking progress and I would get the degree done and out the way in two years, then I could get on with the rest of my life. Things were looking up, I was actually feeling on top of things. And now, I'll have to spend a year doing mickey mouse stuff.

Well pissed off. :! :X
 
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there'll probably be a way around it. hopefully anyway. get on the phone with them in the morning.
 
Are you sure it doesn't mean that you can't apply for credit transfer for that particular course once you have started studying that course? Seems daft if you studied with the OU 5 years ago for something totally different to not be able to apply for credit transfer today for something different. Remember, you've not slept properly in days. I've got a feeling you may just be reading that wrong mate. Double check before it's too late.
 
there's probably some time specific limitations or whatnot related to time between courses or whatever .. do you have the same PI number? it might be related to that also

I studied with the OU and did the cert level for my MBA in Strat Managment .. was pretty easy ... did the diploma at a different place and got halfway through the last year of the of MBA and had to quit.

I think the OU are brilliant. I didn't have to go to any of the monthly workgoups either
 
parttime crackhead said:
Are you sure it doesn't mean that you can't apply for credit transfer for that particular course once you have started studying that course? Seems daft if you studied with the OU 5 years ago for something totally different to not be able to apply for credit transfer today for something different. Remember, you've not slept properly in days. I've got a feeling you may just be reading that wrong mate. Double check before it's too late.
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I'm pretty sure, it's on their website on the page where you download the forms:

If you think you may be eligible for credit transfer then you must arrange this before you register for an OU qualification or start studying with us. Once you have begun your studies you will not be able to apply for credit transfer.
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Sounds pretty final. But I will phone the Cunts in the morning.

Yeah marmz I have the same PI number I've had for fourteen years or so.

If it is no-go then the fuckers need a slap, in what way does it reflect on my academic achievement whether or not I applied for credit transfer before or after I started studying? That is not "open".
 
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At least it will mean a year where you will have high grades, enjoy it.

Which way are you heading after your Gaylord Focker direction didn't work out?
 
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Arnold said:
At least it will mean a year where you will have high grades, enjoy it.

Which way are you heading after your Gaylord Focker direction didn't work out?
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Just completing the degree I started in 1996, Computer Science. Thinking I might get into teaching, adult eduction or something.
 
You've got experience in that field already don't you?
So why not combine the first year with the required teacher training you have to do as well?
 
Arnold said:
You've got experience in that field already don't you?
So why not combine the first year with the required teacher training you have to do as well?
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Yep, I've been working in IT since I dropped out in '98.

The teaching qualification is a postgraduate diploma, can't enrol unless you've graduated first :(
 
Hmm, you could take a shortcut and teach at a college.
I know the college I studied at advertised for anyone with practical experience in a field.
They found a programmer who programmed a game for nintendo and loads of others( plus was an alright guy(aka not full of shit or a bullshitter) hired on the spot so to speak.

Plus being at a college you get the barely legal chicks too!
How the fuck I never ended up with a rape charge is beyond me.
 
Fucking hell. Just found a statement on the OU Website that the rule about credit transfer only applies to students starting after October 2012.

So I'm through :)

It's an emotional rollercoaster this. 8(

Sorry for all the drama :\

Still a weird rule, although I suppose they will be warning new students about it when they sign up.
 
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Arnold said:
Hmm, you could take a shortcut and teach at a college.
I know the college I studied at advertised for anyone with practical experience in a field.
They found a programmer who programmed a game for nintendo and loads of others( plus was an alright guy(aka not full of shit or a bullshitter) hired on the spot so to speak.
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I've considered that, but I'm thinking about going abroad at some point, and I think the qualifications are probably all the more important in a different country. Also this is probably my last chance to do this before I'm actually too stupid to do it. Well, too disillusioned or something.
 
Sorry for all the drama :\

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You're allowed to be angry in the angry thread Knocks :) Diva it up to your hearts delight.

OU bureaucracy has done my head in. I'm not going to go into its too triggering. I was really looking forward to starting a History course next term but no grrr.
 
OK I'll carry on then ;) Now I've noticed that not only do they want an Academic Transcript and original certificates, they also want a detailed course syllabus. Not sure whether my old uni will have that from 1996. They should have, but I can't find any information on their web site. Have to just hope they can give me it tomorrow :\ I certainly haven't got it, I would never have thought to keep it.

edit: and I've managed to get blood on my certificate and the envelope I was going to use.
 
knockando said:
OK I'll carry on then ;) Now I've noticed that not only do they want an Academic Transcript and original certificates, they also want a detailed course syllabus. Not sure whether my old uni will have that from 1996. They should have, but I can't find any information on their web site. Have to just hope they can give me it tomorrow :\ I certainly haven't got it, I would never have thought to keep it.
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It depends on the uni, some of them don't keep any records after a few years and some others are so incompetent and unorganised that they lose them.

I needed my transcripts for one job, I was lucky I ended up finding copies I had in the basement, but when I asked my uni(London Met, the worst uni in the entire universe) they said I wasn't on record:X even though I'd finished my BA there less than two years before.
 
knockando said:
edit: and I've managed to get blood on my certificate and the envelope I was going to use.
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Darling I told you to stop using those mooncups.


Thing with the o/u is you have to finish the computer science degrees within 7 or 8 years otherwise you have to start them from scratch as the technology will be out of date.
Which might be the reason as to why they want your course syllabus.
 
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