Can anyone help me - how do I go about applying for a uni place?

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Sorry I didn't know where to put this..

I think I'm pretty much decided that if I can get a uni place I will take voluntary redundancy and become a student.

but I don't know how to go about applying for uni.

I don't have A-Levels which I think might make it more difficult but I do have 2 x NVQ level 2s, 1 x NVQ Level 3 and a Foundation Degree + good GCSE results from eons ago.

Can anybody help me? would I be starting in year 1? how do I go about applying for a place?

I know nothing I've never had to apply for a uni or college place before, I really don't know where to start. I looked at a few websites and it keeps talking about UCAS but I thought that was for school leavers

TIA

I'm a Uni lecturer.
Decide what sort of area you want to study. If it's the same area as your Foundation Degree you will probably need to do a short bridging course and then may be able to enter a degree course in the final year. If you want to study a completely different subject, you'll have to take advice from the course leader about what you need to do.
Definitely first job is find a course you want to study, contact the University, they'll put you in touch with the course leader who'll give you help and guidance. But you need to get your finger out if you're thinking of starting in September!

Thanks.

I'd like to do something compltely different I think so will assume I would be starting from year 1. I'll have a look around and take your advice/speak to tutor.

Can I ask a really dumb question.. how can I find out what sort of jobs a certain degree can lead to? I quite fancy doing something with a psychology flavour

That's something the course leader should be able to tell you for each course. If you're not sure exactly what you want to do as a job when you graduate, a straight psychology degree would give you more options afterwards.

The way I went about it was looking at Uni-Brochures and looking at the courses on offer ( I kinda knew roughly what I wanted to do) than I went to an open day and looked at teh courses that interested me, i.e. spoke to their admissions tutors, and things, to gather more information, i.e. what I needed to be considered, etc.... and than I applied over UCAS , sometimes if you go part time, ratehr than full time, there is a different application process, but they will be able to tell you!

With mature students A levels etc...are often not the most important thing...because life experience is counted towards life long learning, or some such thing.... but they may still ask you to show that you can study at University level, especially if you not studied anything recently....

With me it was enough that I had my Nursing Qualifications and I was asked to do a study skills course at that University , which was very helpful anyway, and I got in first time ( I am in my first year of my Occupational Therapy degree, full time)....! I absolutely love my course, and it is the best thing I have ever done. And whilst it can be tough, being 38, with a family of a dh and 3 sons (ages 12, 6 and 4....) I truely enjoy it (although, not always, of course.......but you know what I mean...

best of luck!

Oh, my friend , on the course, also took redundency before starting this course....and she has no regretts, neither!

I called the local uni on the spur of the moment to talk about transferring (I had been doing OU, but in the end I went in at first year), it was all so random and roundabout I am amazed I got in! Good Luck!!!