Re: Warning!


<markbellavista@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>A convoy can only go as fast as the slowest ship. The open university
> courses are not only written for the slowest ship, they're written for
> one that's severely retarded, and one that hasn't even left port yet.
>
> When you go for the induction meeting, usually a couple of weeks
> before
> the course starts, you're warned that's there's a lot of hard work and
> a
> lot of material to work through. But it's not until the course
> actually
> starts a couple of weeks later, that you begin to realise exactly what
> they were talking about and what you've let yourself in for.
>
> If the reading material was direct and too the point, it would be
> easier to get through and could be interesting. But it isn't. It gets
> on a number 68 bus and goes all round Chalk Farm. Then not content with
> that little diversion it gets on a number 157 and goes all round
> Crystal
> Palace before it finally gets to the point.
>
> Words like: Padded, Long Winded, Bloated, Tedious, Frustrating and Mind
> Bendingly Boring come to mind.
>
> When you actually start the course, the material starts to arrive
> through your letter box. What starts off as a trickle, soon becomes a
> flood, and you simply can't keep up with it. Eventually you have to
> hire a skip to cart it away. What could easily be written in just a
> few
> pages, thus keeping it manageable, is padded, bloated and extended to
> fill a telephone directory size manual (if you're doing computer work,
> the software you're provided with is usually obsolete and wont run on a
> modern computer, and would be completely useless in the real world
> where
> you're expected to be using it).
>
> Then of course you begin to realise what you were being told at the
> induction meeting. How much hard work it is and how dedicated you have
> to be to finish the course. What they were saying about the amount of
> material to get through and how you have to be so determined to finish,
> only now begins to make sense and you can see what they were actually
> getting at. And what a fool you were for letting yourself in for so
> much aggravation.
>
> As soon a you realise what you've let yourself in for, your immediate
> reaction is to call it a day and cancel the course, thus saving
> yourself
> from months and months of unnecessary drudgery. You can't. They've got
> that one covered too. You still have to pay, whether you like it or
> not. There's no way out. You're in. And pay you will.
>
> Be warned. If you're a complete idiot, then the Open University is for
> you. Anyone with reasonable intelligence, look elsewhere.
>
I take it that you had a bad experience with the Open University then! I've
had 4 years studying with the OU and had no problems myself.
BTW you can cancel the course and get a refund which is in indirect
proportion to when you cancel after the start date.
Which course did you sign up for then?


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