Hello
I'm not an HE-er although did consider it until it became apparent that dd's interests were best served at full time theatre school. So apologies for hopping into the topic but I thought that people here would be most likely to have experience that would help.
My dd loves her school but it is a very arts based curriculum and they do no IT at all. I think there is only one computer in the building! Dh (who is her stepdad) and I are both programmers and so she is a very competent computer user, has played around with some basic programming etc. and appears to be tech support for all her friends. She has asked if she would be able to do qualifications in computing even if the school don't do it - she knows about distance learning as I recently completed an OU degree.
I have found courses such as www.nec.ac.uk/courses/product?usca_p=t&product_id=1180&category_id=3303 online but just wondered if anyone here had any experience of ICT by distance learning at GCSE level? My dd will be 13 this year and I thought if she was to do it, it might be worth he working to take the exam the year before she sits her other GCSEs.
Any experiences or thoughts would be useful. As she is interested I think it might be good for her to do a qualification as these skills will be useful even if just for part time work while she is "resting" as a performer and she has found and followed tutorials online to learn how to use the software on her computer. For example she now does all the mixing of music in Garage Band when they need a backing track for anything they do at school, and we didn't teach her how to do it. So I know she is capable of working through things herself.
Rachel