Photography MA as a mature student?

Just think if you don't earn enough post degree you won't have to pay back the fees :-)
Matt
 
I have been thinking about it but realistically I cannot afford it. Or, rather, there are other things I would rather afford.
 
I did the OCA course for 5 years, completed level 4 and one of the two level 5 courses, then work got in the way too much. I was spending all weekend catching up with the course work. It didn't help that the price of the course trebled since I started, at the time I couldn't afford the next course.

I really enjoyed it. It opened up so much more to me, an appreciation of art, the history and references to photos, the introduction to other artists and photographers work.

I hope to pick it back up again and continue at a later stage
 
MatBin said:
Just think if you don't earn enough post degree you won't have to pay back the fees :)
Matt
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I could do the course part time over two years and as I'm already a pro earning a pittance I'm not planning on getting a well-paid job at the end of it. I suspect I may be too old for a loan anyway. I'm about to receive an inheritence so the money isn't really an issue.


Byker28i said:
I did the OCA course for 5 years, completed level 4 and one of the two level 5 courses, then work got in the way too much. I was spending all weekend catching up with the course work. It didn't help that the price of the course trebled since I started, at the time I couldn't afford the next course.

I really enjoyed it. It opened up so much more to me, an appreciation of art, the history and references to photos, the introduction to other artists and photographers work.

I hope to pick it back up again and continue at a later stage
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These are exactly the sorts of reasons I'm thinking of getting an education. I've done so much photography over the years but have very little grounding in the history and art involved. Thanks for the encouragement!
 
Do it Jerry :thumbs: If you can make it work money-wise, with the right course you'd learn a lot of interesting and challenging new stuff and have a ball.

I've often wondered about doing something like this, basically picking up where my degree course ended in 1975. Which was doing pretty much what I wanted TBH, in the company of many talented students and stimulating tutors. I got to experience all genres of photography, meet a lot of amazing people, use things like large-format cameras in professionally equipped studios, with hot & cold running darkrooms on tap.

No idea what the course options are these days, but when our Pookeyhead (college tutor) was a regular poster inbetween bans, I thought he'd be a great person to work with, particularly as he seemed to have a lot of opposing but well argued views. And a he has a Mustang, so not all bad :D
 
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