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If you'd like to become a student but have existing work or child commitments, the latest internet developments might be able to help you.
A university has launched a totally "virtual" degree course in which students will attend all their lectures and seminars online.
Students will be able to complete the Essex University course in business studies entirely from their homes, reports This Is London.
Lectures and seminars will be held in a real-time, internet environment and special screen icons will allow students to participate in discussions.
Alan Jenkins, managing director of Kaplan Open Learning, the deliverer of the degree, emphasised the course was an important step towards widening access to degree qualifications.
He said: "It is purely online and there is no classroom attendance at all, so a person from Penzance does not have to travel into Birmingham or London to attend a tutorial.
"It includes online real-time lectures. It replicates everything that is the classroom but in an online environment, for example students discussing, students asking questions and students handing in work."
However, the new degree is unlikely to threaten more conventional forms of undergraduate life as the intense socialising enjoyed by many students seems impossible to entirely recreate online.
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