Alison Stamps graduated in 2007 with a BA Film and Media and now works as a Quality Development Manager with the University of Exeter. She spoke of her experience for Birkbeck’s Part-time Matters campaign in 2013:

“In my early 30s someone told me about Birkbeck, and the experience changed who I am. I took my BA Film and Media over a period of 6 years, going to class between two and three times a week after work. I worked full-time throughout the part-time degree and had to defer my second year to care for my sick mother.

I passed my degree with first class honours, having never written an essay or taken lecture notes before my first class at Birkbeck. My degree gave me confidence and opened doors professionally and I could wax lyrical about Birkbeck and what it did for me. It changed my outlook on life and gave me goals and ambition.

To in any way diminish the part-time study opportunities for potential students within the UK would be potentially catastrophic to a body of students/future students that have so much to give our economy.”