Ok, I see, didn't mean to bite your head off!
What I meant was that a person's ability to succeed may be more related to the time they are able to spend studying regardless of where and how. Personally, I found that doing a distance learning course at home (full time) was far better for me than being stuck in a classroom for 7 odd hours a day. At least then I can progress at my own speed and pay more attention to the things I found difficult, and less to the other topics.
Provided the school provide good brush up courses at the end of each module, the student will get the best of both worlds.
I certainly agree that the whole affair would be made far more difficult if it was done in conjunction with holding down a full time job! I left work to do it full time, but there is an obvious cost penalty involved because I had to borrow money to live on during this time. However, I feel that the advantage of doing it this way was to enable me to focus fully for the shortest period of time possible, thus reducing the overall cost (hopefully)
Didn't help me to pass the damn Instruments exam though
Reckon that this subject has already been flogged to death though. Ultimately it's all horses for courses, if you'll pardon the pun!
Nish.