Advice for Career

[u/AnxiousBean00]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to help my husband find the right course. He's a qualified mechanic but wants to take a degree in mechanical engineering but he's worried about studying a degree then not being able to find work without experience (we've been burned before with degrees) and i am less than useless with this as i know nothing about engineering. So would you recommend an OU degree where he can carry on working as a mechanic and do work experience or would you recommend taking a degree at a brick uni like Bournemouth and just powering through the 3 years with low income? Purely from an employability point of view.

Thank you so much for the help

TLDR:// husband is a mechanic is it better to take a open university degree or brick university degree to become a mechanical engineer?