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My journey from full-time Mum to full-time employee to full-time BU student

March 9, 2021 Applying, Fees and funding, Student Blogs, Undergraduate

I’m currently in my second year at Bournemouth University, studying BSc (Hons) Computing, but it’s taken me a long time to get here!  I’m 47, married and divorced twice, a Mum of two grown-up daughters and previously in full-time employment for a very long time. I’ve always loved technology, and it’s taken me this long… Read more »

Leaving the world of work and returning to university

March 19, 2020 Employability, Fees and funding, Postgraduate, Student Blogs

Sometimes I wonder how I ended up back in university at all… After I finished my undergraduate degree, I didn’t expect to study again. I had struggled through my final exams and thought that was it, I was ready to go into the working world, and that was what I did. I had qualified as… Read more »

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