Get qualified for your dream career at your own pace

Similarly, there are a number of professions where qualifications are a must because your abilities will affect the development of other people – these might include becoming a teaching assistant or a couples counsellor. However, many people don't fulfil their potential when they're at school, for a variety of reasons. They could have had illnesses, learning difficulties or simply not done particularly well when it came to exam time. For this reason, there are a number of learning options that those who are outside the school system can explore and participate in in order to qualify for a particular career.

Cambridge Open College is one of the fastest growing distance learning groups in the UK. In return for your hard work and registration fees, it will support and give you information about how to become a teaching assistant or counsellor. You will embark upon a course that fully covers everything you need to succeed in the relevant field and eventually end up with a nationally-recognised qualification that you can then use as a springboard into the careers market. Because it's a distance learning teaching assistant or counsellor course, you won't have to move to Cambridge or attend any lectures. Instead, you will be sent all relevant course materials and be assigned a tutor, with whom you will communicate by phone and email and are subsequently highly experienced with the academic guiding of students without ever actually meeting them face-to-face.

There are several benefits to learning through distance teaching. As well as the high level of support you will receive, the most important is probably the fact that you can study at your own pace - there's no end-of-year examination that you have to be ready for come hell or high water, so you can take as long as you need to understand the concepts and methods involved in the course. In addition, it's a very cheap way of getting the qualifications that will help you move your life forward, as the usual overheads and extra costs of things like classrooms and teaching aids that mark up college and university courses taught in the traditional way are not relevant here, and the savings are reflected in the fees you pay. In addition, you will be eligible for full CV support at the conclusion of your course so you can make the most of your new qualification.

When those who say that education isn't important turn out to have good jobs regardless of the fact that their qualifications are relatively poor, there are usually mitigating circumstances in their cases. It's a lot better to be educated than not if you want to go into a profession where qualifications are important, and this institute's education and support systems can help you gain those qualifications cheaply and (for the most part) without too much stress.