'Wake-up Call'

English Literature student Sandra Young is featured in Good Housekeeping Magazine as part of a feature called 'The Wake-up Call that Changed Everything.'

Sandra was one of four women interviewed about a life-changing event that prompted them to take on some new and fulfilling course in life. For Sandra, the initiating event was her son's departure for university. And her new course in life was to go to university herself.

Sandra decided to apply for our two-year Foundation Certificate in English Literature. It was a decision she didn't take lightly.

'I'd left school with a handful of O-Levels believing I was nowhere near clever enough to go to university - it wasn't even on my radar,' Sandra told the editors at Good Housekeeping. 'When I got the letter telling me I'd been given a place on the course, I was so surprised and overwhelmed that I cried.'

The Foundation Certificate in English Literature is a two-year, part-time course, equivalent to the first year of a full-time undergraduate degree. Many students go on to complete their English Literature degrees, some in Oxford, others elsewhere, applying for entry in year two of a degree course.

Sandra's photo and interview appears in the October 2014 issue of Good Housekeeping (UK), on page 46.

To learn more about the Foundation Certificate in English Literature, please see: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/fcel
To learn more about our part-time undergraduate and graduate award programmes, please see: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/qualifications

Published 20 October 2014