Uni will cost you at least £15k. That's the PPL and hour building and the ATPL exams covered. Get a job and live at home and save like a lunatic. Lets say you get a job on £15k a year working in a local electronics factory on a production line (you do some overtime and double shifts). You should be able to save £8k a year leaving you with £24k in the bank plus compound interest of £2k = £26k in cash and NO student loans or overdrafts.
During your employment it would be perfectly possible to add an NVQ3 to your CV and if the employer offers day release ONC courses then that is doable as well.
Nothing stopping you having a Sunday job as well or working in a local pub on Saturday night.
To keep yourself sane and focussed on a flying career you can get hold of a set of ATPL study notes and spend a few hours a week reading them.
At the grand old age of 21 you would have a clear training plan worked out, be fully up to speed on the PPL theory and havea grasp of the ATPL course. You would have at least £26k in your pocket and could get a loan fairly easily (three years continuous employment and fully solvent) for a further £12k.
£38k is then a reasonable figure to do the Modular course.
SOooooooo much better than a piece of paper with a degree written on it and no relevant experience and a big debt to the student loan company (I did a degree myself and have nothing against it per se).
And forget this nonsense about something to fall back on.
The majority of people not the top ten percent now have do a degree so by itself it doesn't make you special. Given that you got the degree then went and did something completely different AND your degree is now 6 years old and covered in dust AND things have moved on quite a bit then your computer degree is going to get you no where as a fall back.
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