The Parent Student

Distance learning or attendance course?

To be there or not to be there? That is the question. Should you choose a conventional attendance course or instead plump for a distance learning option? Distance courses Correspondence courses, online degrees, distance learning, call it what you will, the non-attendance study sector has burgeoned over the past decade or so to become one of the [...]

Stirling childcare

The University of Stirling, Scotland offers not only a high quality education (ranked 35 out of 113 UK universities) it also provides an on-campus playgroup and a parent and toddler group three times a week, plus you’ll find a Bright Beginnings Nursery in close proximity to the campus. Stirling Uni also provides student accommodation in the [...]

Your children are more likely to get a degree too

According to a study in the journal Research in Higher Education in the US, “first-generation” students (ie those whose parents did not go to Uni) were 71% more likely to drop out in the first year than those with two graduate parents. In fact an international study (reviewed here) has found that parental education is [...]

IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT SACRIFICE

Could studying perfectly balance parenting and vice versa?

MOTIVATION

Leave the all-nighters to the regular student - the Parent Student is much more motivated and organised...