That was unex­pec­ted! I got noti­fic­a­tion yes­ter­day that I’d been awar­ded a dis­tinc­tion on the Open Uni­ver­sity law course I did last winter: W223: Com­pany law and practice.

The dis­tinc­tion was an unex­pec­ted pleas­ure as I thought I was only in 2:1 ter­rit­ory — I didn’t think I had quite the grade aver­age necessary […]

I have just found this and though it worth a men­tion and link: Cleveret’s Open Uni­ver­sity Degree Class Cal­cu­lator. It seems to do all the hard work cor­rectly, includ­ing cal­cu­lat­ing the qual­ity assur­ance scores.

Very use­ful if you want to work out what grades you need — there­fore also what aver­ages you’ll need to […]

I’m back on the marked assign­ments again — I’m around a week ahead of sched­ule, which is good. Like the last one, this one too is one of tight word–counts: 800 for each of two questions.

I have writ­ten 932 words for one of the ques­tions, and I am around 250 from fin­ish­ing. I’m also […]

My good­ness, this unit has had some work done to it recently, and it shows, both in good and bad ways.

Good stuff: very use­ful full-page graphs of the con­stitu­ent parts of a claim for Judi­cial Review. In the main — a good struc­ture; lead­ing through in stages from a gen­eral over­view of the nature […]

I fin­ished the Human Rights sec­tion of W201 — my cur­rent OU Law course — around a month ago. After some com­plain­ing about it when I was start­ing off, it turned out to be more inter­est­ing — and a lot more rel­ev­ant — than I first assumed it would be.

The sec­tion of the […]

I tweeted yes­ter­day my first frus­tra­tion with my cur­rent Open Uni­ver­sity law course: the indi­vidual and the state. I’ve hit the first bit that feels like filler — which inter­est­ingly, isn’t the point where other stu­dents have com­plained that some­thing feels like filler.

Other stu­dents com­plained much earlier on. Right at the start […]

The pro­cess of try­ing to cap­ture what I’m learn­ing is a pro­cess that is still under a degree of trial and error, here. When I was at school and last study­ing at uni­ver­sity level, it just kind of went in. I didn’t care about the pro­cess. Now, a few Open Uni­ver­sity courses later […]

The major prob­lem I have had with study­ing an Open Uni­ver­sity course with an exam at the end of it is that through­out my career, I have not needed to remem­ber detail. In fact, I’ve writ­ten about this before recently. Because of the abil­ity of inform­a­tion on the inter­net, I’ve never needed to recall […]