To do a Masters while working full time as a lone parent?

Psychology conversion is a bit different though, it's about securing GBC status to be able to progress down the career path. You would need outstanding results plus competitive experience. And potentially to have done certain modules for specific EdPsyD institutions. The institution where you did your psych conversion is less relevant because they're all accredited as meeting the standard for GBC.

I don't mean this in a horrible way, but reading your posts I do think you need to do more research about this path and your different options - irrespective of the question about whether it would have been feasible to do full time alongside a full time job and parenting. Have you looked at the guidance about what your EdPsyD application would need to show to be competitive?

On another note, you asked up thread about tutor contact and assuming that you'd only get tutor interaction with a local institution even if not attending lectures. That's not the case. If you joined a proper distance programme (rather than an in-person programme where you just decide not to attend lectures) then it will be set up to give you that support and interaction. Off the top of my head, aside from the OU, Glasgow is another one with a strong reputation for its online programmes and the psych conversion.

I have done it working full time and I mean 12 months a year full time not just full time term time which is technically part time IMO. Very doable if pre recorded and you have evenings free. I also parent alone and have no second parent but if you have you can utilise your weekends and then you have the many mid term or half term holidays also to study. Good luck with it.

I wouldn't bother. Not for Psychology. That's a lot of work for no payoff. You won't be able to do anything with it other than more study,

I'm currently doing this, not psychology though. DD is 8 and I work full time. Other parent isn't involved at all so I don't get EOW off or anything like that.

I've done mine through the degree apprenticeship route, so I get one full day a week at home to study and do whatever else is needed in the evening or weekends. The course is going to take around two years, the apprenticeship element means you have to be on programme for a certain period of time before you can complete the end point assessment.

I wouldn’t. When would you have any time?

I did a masters full time when my son was 6, as a single mom, but was not working. I got a scholarship and bursary. NGL I struggled but passed with a distinction. Your kids sound older more independant, so it is deffo do-able.

Just be realistic with time and be super duper organised. Get stuff / essays etc done as much in advance as you can...because as you know sometimes shyte happens and all of a sudden you are behind. Best of luck what ever you decide.

Have you considered the OU for the conversion course?

https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f92

I tutor (psychology) for the OU and have also lectured at Universities and would say that the quality of materials and support at the OU is so much higher.

A friend same position as you has just completed year 1 of a masters. Kudos.

I admire your ambition OP, and sympathise with your situation, but I did am MSc a few years ago, and I don't think it would be possible as a lone parent working full time. I would say a masters is equivalent to a part time job. I was already quite familiar with the subject matter. Sorry

If you think you might end up doing a PhD, then you will need an excellent thesis at MA level and top grades. I would take two years in that case.

I'm also going to add, OP, that your romantic vision of you and your two teenagers doing your homework together for hours every night at the kitchen table is utter fantasy.

I also have 3 M level qualifications.

I did my MSc F2F when I working full time but pre-kids. I was at uni 3 evenings a week and then writing my assignments in my annual leave. I like to have a short but focused approach to assessments.

I later did an MA followed by a separate PgDip. The MA was 6 weekends of contact and the PgDip was online. I'd had kids by this point. Again, I tend to do my work in short, focused bursts rather than steadily through the term. I would take several days for each assignment when I would go to the library 9-6 at least. My kids were old enough not to need me too much (youngest was 9 when I started).

It is hard. Each of my courses was split over 2 years rather than 1. I think 2 years for a level M course alongside a FT job is very doable but doing it in one year would be a real slog.

It was tough but not horrendous. Although saying that the statistics was extremely difficult to get my head around. I had to do a lot of my own additional learning around that. I got a merit in the end. I completed it in 2020. I have gone on to get a job in a psychological field. I’m a psychotherapist for the NHS.

A conversion course is no ordinary masters. It is condensing knowledge from a degree in a subject that is new to you. It is not going to be like doing a masters in a subject you are already familiar with. Doesn't sound like something to rush through and not properly digest due to.your other commitments - especially if you want to do further study in this new discipline.

Yes it was. I did it online at University of Derby and it was fully online

I'm doing an MA part time - over two years. They expect 30 hours per week of study on top of time in uni (that varies but usually 1 day per month). I could not do it on top of full time work, and have needed the summer to write my dissertation. Good luck but it will be very hard.