Terry Goulding: Retired Civil Servant

On reaching retirement I refelected on my life and was disappointed to see that I had not achieved any form of academic recognition. Couple this with boredom, I decided to keep my mind alert and retrospectively redress the situation.

"I had been in the military for almost 40 years and then worked in the civil service and ran my own business. After I retired, I felt disappointed that I hadn’t achieved any academic qualifications during my life and I decided to do something about it."

"When I signed up for Kaplan Open Learning’s Business Studies course, I needed to learn about working in an eLearning environment. Now I can attend the virtual seminars, interact with my fellow students online in the ‘student lounge’, follow ‘learning threads’ and submit coursework all via the eLearning platform."

"I´m finding that eLearning provides a very supportive environment in which to learn – there is a whole classroom full of fellow students who are going through the same thing that I am and we really do help each other out. The others have such a wealth of diverse business knowledge, it makes for very interesting learning threads."

"At the beginning of each unit, I download the information I need and then sit over a couple of brandies to really study the material."

"My favourite part of the course is the class interaction and friendships I’m making – kind of the human face of technology. The constant interaction with other students gives me the impetus to keep on trying. I really wish I had become more computer literate in my earlier years, but I’m thrilled to be doing a degree course now – and the course is brilliant!"

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