History A Level - Distance Learning

[TheFutureMrsClooney]

DD has just started A levels at college. Has always loved the subject but the syllabus doesn't cover the area she's interested in - European and British History. She was seriously considering a History degree but is now thinking of giving up the subject.

We live in a rural area and no one seems to run A Level History as an evening class. She's happy with the other subjects and doesn't want to move, so distance learning seems to be the only option.

Has anyone got experience of this? I don't know how to go about finding a legitimate provider.

Thanks!

[webwiz]

Could she not stick at it a bit longer? Even if she changes to a different syllabus with some European and British History it won't take up the whole A level. DD2 did the British Empire in her History AS but that was only 50% of the year the other half was Vietnam. If she'd gone on to A2 I think it was Russia and the causes of the WWII.

[TheFutureMrsClooney]

The whole syllabus is Russia and China. She did Russia for GCSE and loved it but isn't interested in China.

[senua]

Is the answer to just suck it up? She needs to do the best she can in the college's choice of A Level to persuade Uni admissions that she has grasped the requisite skills (essay writing, research, evaluating sources etc). She can major in her preferred area when she gets to Uni (make sure she reads syllabi carefully!). She needs the mindset that she is not 'learning this (specific) historical subject' but 'learning how to learn (any) historical subject' IYSWIM.

There is nothing stopping her from reading up on British/EU history in her own time, and it will look good on the PS.

[webwiz]

I was going to say something similar to Senua that its the skills involved in History that are the key not the content but was thinking that only a 16 year could completely write off Chinese History