Learning at home

You can learn at home if you can’t get childcare. It’s not easy, but it can be done.

• Fitting study round caring for your children: you can study while the children are at school, or after they have gone to bed. Partners can help you by taking over when they can, to give you a couple of hours to work uninterrupted
• Online: as long as you have access to a computer, you can follow an online learning course at whatever time suits you
• Distance learning: this lets you work through a course in your own time, and often comes with access to a tutor by phone or online. This is a good way to remove time pressures - but you need a lot of self-discipline to get through the work.

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