Information on University courses.

Hi, I am hoping for so help in making a choice on where to study.

First a bit of background on me. I trained as a avionics technician it the British army. When I left the army I first worked in instrumentation and calibration before working as an electronics engineer at BAE systems. I then started working for Toshiba medical systems now canon medical systems after they bought Toshiba medical, which I still work at as a field service engineer on ultrasound machines.

The only qualifications I have are me GCSE's, A-level's and my apprenticeship from the army.

I am looking into Going back to studying to get my BEng. Mostly for my own love of Engineering but also hopefully for career development, so that I can backup my experience with qualifications. 

The information/help I am after is that I have found places to do my studying but I am unsure about them and am hoping someone on here has information about any of these places, as it is a large commitment in time and money I don't want to waste in only to find out its not worth the paper its printed on.

It is unlikely that my company will be able to give me day release to do it part time so it would have to be remote.

There seems to be 2 options. First is I could do a HND then a top up degree. Second is a place that offers a full degree on remote study. 

The details are HND at either Teeside university or with a company called unicorse, and the degree is from the Engineering college of technology.

I have researched as much as I can but not found enough information to decide on the Which would be best.

If anyone has any info on any of these please could you reply it would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Do check what paper qualifications you actually need for your intended career path - while a degree/etc. might be necessary for getting your first job, after that many look for relevant experience over paper qualifications. If you want to do it for your own satisfaction, than by all means, I wouldn't want to discourage that! For remote/part-time the Open University used to be the go-to institution.

       - Andy.

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  • Do check what paper qualifications you actually need for your intended career path - while a degree/etc. might be necessary for getting your first job, after that many look for relevant experience over paper qualifications. If you want to do it for your own satisfaction, than by all means, I wouldn't want to discourage that! For remote/part-time the Open University used to be the go-to institution.

       - Andy.

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