It was a level 3, two year course at our local college She was a "mature" student, although she is only 28, all of the others were 17 or 18. She found it academically straight forward, but put in a lot of effort to get things absolutely right and declined any help from me. Her biggest problem was in dealing with her younger fellow students, some of whom had no real interest in the course and were there more to avoid having to find work than to improve themselves! My wife hates attitudes like that as from where comes from an education is a priviledge and not to be wasted. She let them know and suffered some bullying as a consequence.