The National Home Study College is one of the UK’s leading distance learning organisations, offering students the opportunity of studying for their diploma without ever having to attend class or college. Home study courses are very similar to those expected from a local college with regard to both content and quality. However, unlike attending a local college, home study means that students work entirely from home, completely in their own time and without ever having to attend classes or lectures.
What’s on offer
Whether wanting to embark on a new career, change direction, learn something new or maybe just pursue an interest, the National Home Study College aims to help its students achieve their goals. Programmes provide the essential training necessary to work within a wide range of rewarding fields. All National Home Study College courses assume no previous knowledge, are written in plain and simple English and can be studied from home using the very latest easy-to-learn study techniques. National Home Study College courses include all of the materials that are needed to successfully complete a course:
- welcome packs
- study guides
- study folders and course modules
- assessment tasks
- course readers and texts
- full tutorial support services
- diploma and academic references
- a job seeker pack
- careers advisory service
National Home Study College offers many different levels of courses, from the standard level three courses, which are comparable to other level three vocational qualifications, to specialised study programmes and higher diplomas.
Personal tutors are available by phone, fax or email whenever their help, advice or reassurance are needed. National Home Study College is one of the only distance learning colleges to offer all its students the benefit of their careers advisory and work placement service, giving practical careers advice, academic references and a work placement service to help students find jobs in their chosen career.
Student Story
Tony Winters
'Like many students, I came to the college as a mature student, bored with my existing career in engineering and looking for a challenge now my children were a bit older. Always interested in history and the ancient world, I decided to try something in this field and enrolled for an introductory course in archaeology. Whilst it was a little difficult at first to discipline myself to sit down and study, the tutor was very supportive and within eight months I had completed the course and achieved my diploma.
I enjoyed the experience so much I have now moved on to a higher level course in Egyptology and Heiroglyphics and am already looking at degree programmes as a next step. Never particularly successful at school, I was pleased to find that the informal approach of the college and tutor support really helped me back into a learning situation. Unable to give up work to attend college or university, I would have been unable to pursue my interests without home study as an option.'
