How Distance Learning Works
Our distance learning programmes work in much the same way as conventional college-based study, but are more flexible and more personal – they’re built around you, which helps take the stress out of balancing your studies with your job and your home life.
You won’t be part of a class all doing the same thing in the same place at the same time. Instead, you will have a one-to-one relationship with your tutor, so you will be able to:
- start whenever you want – any day of the year,
- take as long as you need to – study quickly, slowly, steadily or in intensive blocks, whichever suits you,
- study wherever in the world you are, and
- focus on your own weaknesses with your tutor and overcome them.
You will be able to contact your tutor as much as you need to and as often as you need to. The most important part of your course is tutor support, and you’ll have your tutor’s support until you pass.
Your study will work to suit you, and because you follow a course which you adapt to your needs and preferences, your study will be more successful, and you should see better results.
You can find out more about what goes into our course package and also download a sample course if you want to get a better idea how our courses work.
How long will your course take?
A lot will depend on your personal strengths and weaknesses. Depending on the courses you’ve done in the past, the experience that you’ve got, and the research and reading you decide to do, you may find that one course goes quickly whilst another one takes twice as long.
In general, though, our shortest courses take about 50 hours and our longest ones about 120. The will be much more guidance on each type of course in the course's own part of the website and information pack.
