BSc Degree – General Queries

Hi @sameed – As the OBU Forum moderator let me welcome you and any other newcomers to our site. I am confident that like many students you will find our contributors a great help (and comfort) to you as you embark on producing your RAP.

Your first port of call should be the OBU Information Pack 2013/2014 which gives a lot of useful information about how to do the RAP and obtain the degree. It is available either on the ACCAglobal website or via this link

https://business.brookes.ac.uk/undergraduate/2014/acca/files/information-pack.pdf

It can be a bit ‘heavy going’ in places and therefore I am in the process of producing an article which I hope we can get on the site in the next few days that is a much briefer version but sets out some of the main points and it does address the subject of choosing a mentor. One of the problems with the latter is that you need a mentor but there are good mentors and bad mentors and sometimes you won’t know which you have until you are part way through…. nevertheless we hope on this site to fill the gap, should you find that you don’t have a mentor who measures up. We are able to provide a huge amount of advice and guidance from our experience so provided you are willing to put the effort in from your side, there is no reason why you will not achieve your objective and get the BSc degree. 🙂

I suggest that you look at the list of 20 topics (in the Info Pack) from which you have to select one for your report and delve into some of our forum topics as this may give you an idea of what is involved. (I hope to get some articles out towards the end of next month on how to go about choosing your topic and company but this would give you a head start until they appear). Normally a RAP takes about 3 months to produce but at this stage think about what topics interest you, and what company or business sectors appeal as it is better to take time to select something that you may be enthusiastic about rather than rush headlong into something that you will find dreary and boring!

So to you @sameed and everyone else new to this site – congratulations! – like our previous students, you have discovered one of the best sources of help and advice there is for the OBU RAP and to our returning students – welcome back!

@sameed – some articles have been posted and you (and anyone else) can reach them on the link below if you haven’t already found them.

https://opentuition.com/obu/

I will be finishing the article about choosing a topic next month (unfortunately time is really tight for me at the moment) and producing some FAQs that deal with various aspects of the RAP, SLS and submission which I think will be generally useful to students 🙂

@syahmi – Are you sure you opted out? For the last few years the default position is that you are ‘in’ unless you yourself opted out. As for appealing that is probably one of those queries that we cannot answer and you would have to contact the Admin Office (the contact details are in the Info Pack).

I think it is final but I wouldn’t like to stick my neck out on it as I really don’t know why they have that rule in the first place – but it is worth a try so send them an email.

Why not ask point blank why there is this rule ? I am wondering if it was imposed historically and it is no longer relevant and nobody has bothered to query why it exists. Sometimes in life it is a case of ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’! @sashimi you have nothing to lose if this rule means you cannot submit and everything to gain if you ask the question as they may review it.