I'd say it's all about attitude and the reason you are doing it. The people I've known who've taken degrees late in life (including myself, I did my Master's when I was 50) because they were interested in the subject have been really glad they did so. Those who did it just because they thought it would be a ticket to a better job have been disappointed. 

It reads as if you have more of the former attitude, in which case absolutely I'd agree with Lisa, go for it! But I would suggest finding a degree programme aimed at mature students (e.g. Open University?) otherwise you may find..to put it politely...that the approach that your fellow undergraduates take to their degrees rather frustrating. When I worked for a manufacturing company we used to regularly sponsor our apprentices through degrees if they were interested, they usually absolutely sailed through, and the University we partnered through always commented how much harder they worked than the students straight from school. Incidentally they very often were around 30 by the time they did their degree. NO age is too late as people regularly prove

It's worth seeing if you can find any Universities that will let you do it in two years, i.e. that will take your existing qualifications in lieu of the first year. There used to be but I've now idea if there are now. However, just be prepared that if you do do that you will need to spend a lot of time catching up on the maths. But it is possible, again that's what our apprentices used to do. Alternatively you may find some that will condense the course to two years by taking out the long breaks, or, the other way around, allow you to take modules spread over time (again, the Open University approach) so you can work in between modules.

Good luck!

Andy

I'd say it's all about attitude and the reason you are doing it. The people I've known who've taken degrees late in life (including myself, I did my Master's when I was 50) because they were interested in the subject have been really glad they did so. Those who did it just because they thought it would be a ticket to a better job have been disappointed. 

It reads as if you have more of the former attitude, in which case absolutely I'd agree with Lisa, go for it! But I would suggest finding a degree programme aimed at mature students (e.g. Open University?) otherwise you may find..to put it politely...that the approach that your fellow undergraduates take to their degrees rather frustrating. When I worked for a manufacturing company we used to regularly sponsor our apprentices through degrees if they were interested, they usually absolutely sailed through, and the University we partnered through always commented how much harder they worked than the students straight from school. Incidentally they very often were around 30 by the time they did their degree. NO age is too late as people regularly prove

It's worth seeing if you can find any Universities that will let you do it in two years, i.e. that will take your existing qualifications in lieu of the first year. There used to be but I've now idea if there are now. However, just be prepared that if you do do that you will need to spend a lot of time catching up on the maths. But it is possible, again that's what our apprentices used to do. Alternatively you may find some that will condense the course to two years by taking out the long breaks, or, the other way around, allow you to take modules spread over time (again, the Open University approach) so you can work in between modules.

Good luck!

Andy

My experience was that very few universities will give full RPL for a completed HNC, even though the HNC curriculum does map quite closely to what's covered in the first year, at least at lower ranked institutions.