I don't understand ... Can someone please explain?

[Maria]

At the moment I am unemployed but am thinking of just going back to college full time to get a qualification in the career I am desperate for.

 

I want to work in IT, as many of you know.

 

Now today, I had an appointment with a careers advisor to ask about planning my future with being placed in college to do a PC Engineering course and gaining that qualification that im craving for !

 

I asked if there were any benefits I would be entitled to depending on the hours of the course I wish to do, to whcih he told me, that, I can do a course PART TIME and get it funded by the government and claim entitled benifits, BUT if a job happened to come up trumps, I would have to take the job and COMPLETELY DITCH, the course that I am studying, and just work with whatever the job may be.

 

THIS is the contract that I would have to sign. Other than that, if I wanted to do it full time, I would have to fund it myself.

 

I just don't quite get, that, careers advisors want you to have the career you desire, they help you chose what course is best for you and the Gov. will fund it etc but having to ditch somethng that would better your chances of getting that right job for you, and gaining a qulification, is slightly confusing to say the least !

 

STUCK !!

 

:S :S :S

[Lisa]

Well my neigbour is doing college course at the moment & is being funded by the goverment etc, I will ask him, what they told him Maria

[Guest]

QUOTE (Lisa @ Jul 6 2004, 20:44)

Well my neigbour is doing college course at the moment & is being funded by the goverment etc, I will ask him, what they told  him Maria

Yeah please Lisa ! Any help / advice etc would be good.

 

I'm kind of gutted now that I wasted 2 years in college after I left school. Well, I guess they werent wasted but I studied the complete opposite, where I dont really use those skills today !

 

School comes at the wrng time of our (well, my) lives !!

 

:@ :@

[Alex]

You can get the local education authority to pay your fees, you're entitled to it.

[Lisa]

QUOTE (Alex @ Jul 6 2004, 21:10)

You can get the local education authority to pay your fees, you're entitled to it.

yeh, maybe thats what my neighbopur is getting, I think he is going back full time too, I know they have let him go back to re do his maths & english I think & the n in sept he is going to do a music course

 

Maria, go your local college & tell them you are on benefits etc & they will tell you what courses you can do

[Guest]

I will get on the case tomorrow morning PRONTO.

 

Cheers guys !

[Guest]

o and baring in mind I am claiming JSA at the moment. Am I still entitled to Government funds ?

 

I know nil about this kind of stuff !

[Phil rr]

i learnt a lot of my basic pc knowledge from a mate in college - honest! some of my college was slightly geeky some wasn't

 

there's tons of self reading on the web....tech web sites...can give you some if you want - they might make courses easier to understand

[Guest]

PM me.

 

[Phil rr]

dun

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (Maria @ Jul 6 2004, 21:38)

o and baring in mind I am claiming JSA at the moment. Am I still entitled to Government funds ?

Jobseeker's allowance means exactly that. It means you're actively seeking employment (applying for lots of jobs) and that if a suitable full-time job comes along, you promise to take it.

 

So, according to my understanding of JSA, it would be a very bad idea to claim JSA while studying, if full-time work would interfere with your course.

[Jessica Rabbit]

if you were claiming benefits whilst studying, then you can't work as then you would be committing benefit fraud.

 

Why don't you fund yourself, the majority of students have to, your student loan would cover all your tuition fees and livng costs and you could also work part time, and your course would be over in 3 yrs time as opposed to 6.