Post Grad Study - Dont know what to do

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Helping for some quick insight

The company i work for has funding available from construction skills, up to the value of £875 a year for course fee's, and also £275 for completion of a qualification.

I already have HND Business Property Management and RICS Bsc (hons) Business Property management

I started off wanting to do Civil Engineering at HNC Level, mainly because it was cheap and i thought having not come from an engineering degree i would be able to deal with it, the first problem with this was that my course fee's would not be what i thought they were because having already previously done a qualification of equal or greater level you have to pay the unsubsidized fee's of £2500 a year as opposed to £900 a year, the course is 18 months, and the total fee's are £5000 (i feel this is expensive, as well as been at Sheffield city college...)

So i almost decided to enroll on that but then i decided to have a walk over to Sheffield Hallam and asked what the options there were, it turns out i could do a MSC in construction management for less a year, its also accredited, and if i don't get on with it i could leave after a year and just get the PGcert from it.

The fees for this work out at £1680 a year, on top of that i would get 10% discount as my Bsc was there, then the £875 a year making it pretty cheap, and if i did not continue after a year i would get the £275 and it would only cost me in the region of £300.

My concerns really are

Its not civil engineering, it seems like another vague qualification like my Degree, but even if they did offer a civil engineering post grad course, i don't fancy that been my first foray into it, not from a maths point of view but the physics side.

Doing a level 7 qualification while working full time, how has everyone coped with this

Considering just leaving it for a year to be honest, but everyone is saying that MSc fees are likely to come in line with BSc fees next year, and there might not be the funding available next year either.
 
No idea, this is working out at £1680 a stage which with the funding works out pretty cheap, they were stressing that next year nobody has a clue what the fees are going to be, and yes i started looking at the avenue of Sheffield university this morning.

I thought MSc's were expensive as well, i thought i would be looking in the region of £10,000 to be honest, hence why i never pursued it, but now i have a couple of days to make a decision...
 
Well yes basically all the things you have said.

I originally looked at Civil Engineering because as a business we are handed a lot of information from consultants which we are simply asked to do, with more understanding of the technical aspects in house we may be able to offer more services and therefore make more money, but am i really going to get that level of insight from a HNC designed for people who do the more hands on stuff and are wanting to get into the office / desk based side.

Construction management is likely to do many of the things you have said, it also leads onto the RICS route in construction management, which my Bsc already did but not in an area i now work in (it led into chartered surveying), it will also probably give me a better understanding of our responsibilities as a main contractor when taking on bigger projects etc.

Edit :// there is also a lot of crossovers between construction management and what i have already done, but obviously with further expansion into the areas i want to learn
 
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This is the HNC

http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/index.cfm...7-919c-f135ed15ed7f&cmd=Course&Course=CDHCO1A

Arguably more practical down to earth modules

HNC would cost £5000 - £875 - (whatever i would get the for the second 6 months as its 18 months) - £275 completion grant so if we said £3400 that would not be far off after grants

This is the MSC

http://www.shu.ac.uk/prospectus/course/451/

£1680 a year, 10% off that because i did my BSC there so £1512 - £875 so £637 and if i did decide to stop after the first year - £275 so only £362 for a post grad qualification

Part from that i have recently had my pay reviewed and i am pretty confident if i took the msc (less cost to the business) i could have a bit more money
 
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