teambwr47

Has anyone here applied to Auckland Uni as a mature student?

Scary thought at .. years young but may be considering it in the next year depending on PR and costs etc as when i checked fees for foreign students (ie.pre PR) a while back it was scarily huge......

I'm assuming when you have PR that you can enter like anyone else here in NZ?

A friends wife has recently completed a long course in some sort of wine sciences etc and got a grant and funding, anyone else succeeded in getting a grant to cover course fees etc..?

I'm not look at wine sciences i just drink it by the way.......

happynz

No worries. If you have PR your application will be treated the same as a domestic student's, not an international student.

teambwr47

Tuesday will reveal all...........

I did ask the wife, 'if i get in does it mean i can party most weeks with the young students' but it didn't go down that well...........

Also not allowed to have drunken student parties at the house.....damn

Am Loolah

Wine Science????!!!!

My like the sound of that - can one make a career out of it?

teambwr47

I'll no doubt be be studying the practical side part time alongside the course i want to take to relieve the stress......

I wonder if they have practical lectures on..... 'keep drinking until you fall over'?

teambwr47

I was told that the course had involved extensive travel within NZ on tasting days etc and getting to know particular wineries very well.......

Wine Science Course

Maybe the picture at the head of the above link when you go to it sets the tone for the course......

julesnye

must be a cheaper way to get cheap wine...

neilw71

I've just completed the first year of a Post Grad Diploma at the Uni - only part-time (ie evening lectures - 5.30pm until 9pm one night a week).

Don't know what you have applied for, but we are in the new Owen Glen building (Business School) which looks great, but has its faults

The "young students" are a pain in the arse tbh - noisy, smelly and no respect for quiet in the library Actually.....most aren't too bad

Its great being in study again and actually realising the benefits of doing the work and not just getting through the course! Completely different to Undergrad studies!

Neil

Gill and Rob

Rob is just starting the 3rd year of a nursing degree and I'm completing a Masters. Not however through Auckland uni.

Gill

teambwr47

Not formally applied for anything yet but have been told that applications are still possible and have a meeting with the Law School on Tuesday.

persilheinz

Are you thinking of going on to work in the legal field?

jill1420

Are the courses a lot cheaper once you get PR?

I should have started Law BA in Sept but have deferred (keeping options open)as we hope to come over to NZ.

Things a bit up in the air just now.

Would have considered doing Law degree in NZ.....................like you I have Police background.

happynz

Heaps cheaper for permanent residents and citizens. Of course books and stuff like that are the same, but domestic students will pay about a third of the fees that international students pay. Domestic students will also be eligible for interest free student loans and scholarships and study awards.

jill1420

Thanks