I found out yesterday that my first choice university is not taking applications for 2007 entry for the course I want to do! Ahhhh!!!

Birmingham is not taking any applications for History, Heritage, Education BA (it's one course) because there is only 10 people on the course now and not enough peolpe are applying so it wouldn't be 'economic' to carry it on. Grrrr, so where does that leave me? There is other courses I will try for but Birmingham offered exactly what I wanted. Hmph. Oh well, wwhat to do.

Anyone else in the same situation? How many courses can there be that are discontinuing because not enough people are applying? I can't be that small a minority surely. The course is in the Undergraduate Prospectus stating it has 35 places for 2007 and that 68 people applied in 2005. What's changed then. I was all excited about applying until I e-mailed the department asking for further details and I got a reply saying the were not taking applicants.

I am well gutted but life goes on.

That's some bad luck though sadly universities change the courses they offer all the time. I was (un)lucky enough to sit on the school board at Essex (a school is a group of departments) and every year a few courses were added, some were removed and others had name changes or other minor tweaks to make them more appealing to students.

You may find it's not too much of a problem though, as many courses are modular these days, and often the restrictions on courses for what modules you can take are very similar. It might be possible you can now take a history and heritage BA and still do pretty much the same stuff with the only real change being the name of the course on your degree certificate.

For example at Essex you could take maths, or maths for secondary teaching. The actual modules in both courses were identical, the only difference was the educational course has teaching related work experience, and your final year project had to be to do with education.

Try speaking to the course administrator with your problem they might be able to suggest an alternative very close to what you want to do.

AHHHHH!!! Now I have been informed that UCLan is not running the course I would like next year either! I'm not having much luck here.
I'm not going to worry too much though, I keep looking on the UCAS website and finding other courses which are sometimes more appropriate.