No @Anonymous I'm not a leader, I'm a sheep, albeit a black one 
It isn't in me to become leader-type
I would dearly like to go investigative / scientific type
eg I'd luv to go & do say Physics to GCSE 'O' level
We have a town college
but the courses are prohibitively expensive
You used to be able to get a course for a fiver, given certain circumstances, now that's gone, you see it used to be the college needed a certain number of students to run a course
town collee now affiliated to Huddersfield University
geared to young people (quite rightly imho) but since no 'night school' even the vocational courses are beyond my means
How is it in your area of UK @Anonymous
People do evolve. I walked out of school with not a qualification to my name....Went into nursing as a cadet at 15 and 5 half days a week were spent in 'college' I then went into nursing at 18. Got married.. had kids and then dedicated myself to my career...as well as running a home and family.
It worked well for me and wouldn't change a thing. I had many opportunities within nursing to go on and get more qualifications. The hospitals were great allowing education and development. No...I wouldn't change one thing...
@Cleoriff wrote:People do evolve. I walked out of school with not a qualification to my name....Went into nursing as a cadet at 15 and 5 half days a week were spent in 'college' I then went inti nursing at 18. Got married.. had kids and then dedicated myself to my career...as well as running a home and family.
It worked well for me and wouldn't change a thing. I had many opportunities within nursing to go on and get more qualifications. The hospitals were great allowing education and development. No...I wouldn't change one thing...
Good for you @Cleoriff 
@Anonymous wrote:
No @Anonymous I'm not a leader, I'm a sheep, albeit a black one
I would dearly like to go investigative / scientific type
eg I'd luv to go & do say Physics to GCSE 'O' level
We have a town college
but the courses are prohibitively expensive
You used to be able to get a course for a fiver, given certain circumstances, now that's gone, you see it used to be the college needed a certain number of students to run a course
town collee now affiliated to Huddersfield University
geared to young people (quite rightly imho) but since no 'night school' even the vocational courses are beyond my means
How is it in your area of UK @Anonymous
I live in London so there a great choices of courses available. However with a very high price tag. I am all for education but I think education should be available for free. Look at countries like Finland and Sweden, socialist countries in their inception, they are the leading examples when it comes to high-standard free higher education. Finland being rated the top country in the world. That being said, there are online courses that you can get for affordable prices here in the UK and community colleges that have affordable curriculum. Do you have time to study full time? Would your company support your expenses of the course? If you want to study, nothing should stop you
Many of our colleges and community learning centres offer free courses. I enrolled for basic Spanish a few years back....sadly they changed the day and as I was going to Birmingham University at that time to do a degree and the dates clashed...I had to give it up... (then got lazy as so many Spaniards saved me the trouble by learning near perfect English) 
