Today our youngest daughter starts school leaving a my wife with a day or two free.

She's mid 30's and currently working for a small online business part time with low pay. Before having children she was a well paid store manager in Philip Green's empire, two maternity breaks and redundancy ended her retail career, but having gone through Arcadia's management programme she's qualified and experienced in the dying high street retail sector.

Before joining Arcadia's management programme she did a year and a half of a Business Studies degree at Loughborough University and we're thinking that finishing her degree could be worthwhile way to fill her new found free time.

Has anyone gone through a similar experience with The Open University or other distance learning provider?