I´m looking for advice re: starting university (again) next year so I´m not a student yet, unfortunately. I have got a first degree from the UK and now need to study again as I need an extra qualification in the country where I´m now living - it´s a long story. The university here will recognise my original degree credits as counting towards the degree here. Just that I graduated about 10 years ago and can´t really remember any of it. I now feel really torn between starting from scratch and doing it all again or getting my credits to count. On the one hand, with two kids, I need to get as many credits as possible from my first degree because otherwise I´m going to be studying for at least another 5 years - financially it makes a big difference to me if I can get my credits to count. But on the other hand, I can´t remember any of what I learnt in my first degree and I think I will really struggle with the courses which build on those which I skip. I would REALLY need the revision - and don´t know if I can succeed at the new degree as a whole if I don´t go back to the beginning.
What would you do????