Medical School Open
Day – Friday 21st June & Saturday 22nd June 2013
On behalf of the
School of Medicine, may I extend a warm invitation to you and to your 6th form
students who are interested in reading medicine to our Open Day at Cardiff
University. The event will run from 8.45am to 4pm on
Friday 21st June and Saturday 22nd June 2013 in the
Cochrane Building at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Each day will consist
of a detailed presentation about the course and admissions procedure, a
presentation from Student Services, and a presentation from current medical
students about their experiences. We will be opening up the clinical
skills laboratory and simulation suite for the students to have some hands-on
practical experience. Staff from the Medical School’s Admissions Team
and current medical students will be available to answer any questions you and
your students may have.
Due to the popularity
of the event and the limited number of places available, early booking is
advised. (Please choose one date only.) Please ask your pupils to visit
www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/june21openday2013
or
www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/june22openday2013
to register for a
place. Once they have made a booking they will receive further
information regarding the event. This information will include a
programme for the day and a map/directions to the event.
If you require any
further information, please contact Caitlin Golaup on 029 2068 8115 / medicopenday@cardiff.ac.uk.
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Explore Law - for GCSE and A level students at Chester
My local University of Law college at Chester has this session
Explore Law gives you the opportunity to find out what it really takes to study law at university and to work as a lawyer. Discover law through interactive law taster workshops and collect valuable information and advice on finding your route into a career in law.
If you are making an individual booking please register
here. If you wish to make a group booking please download the group booking form.
Explore Law gives you the opportunity to find out what it really takes to study law at university and to work as a lawyer. Discover law through interactive law taster workshops and collect valuable information and advice on finding your route into a career in law.
| Event | Date | Start time | Finish time | Itinerary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explore Law | Wednesday 9 October 2013 | 4.00pm | 6.45pm | Explore Law | |
Monday, 20 May 2013
Labour would reverse Gove's A-level plan
The Shadow Education spokesman has written to Ofqual stating that Labour will reverse Gove's unpopular plans to remove AS from A level and run it only as a standalone qualification.
full story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22389286
full story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22389286
Friday, 17 May 2013
Minister rejects concerns over AS-level changes
This story reported in the BBC shows that the government seem determined to press ahead with changes to AS levels despite virtually every agent within the education sector arguing against the removal of AS as a component of A level.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22530207#
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22530207#
Friday, 10 May 2013
Reading List for Law for potential undergraduates
At
a recent conference hosted by Oxford & Cambridge I attended they suggested the
following books for potential Law Undergraduates
What About Law?: Studying
Law at University -Catherine Barnard (Author, Editor)
Letters
to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University-Nicholas J McBride (Author)
Glanville
Williams: Learning the Law -ATH Smith (Author)
Careers events in Accountancy and Finance and careers in the Law
Details of courses in the above and also journalism and Chemistry, mostly London or Edinburgh at the end of June or early July http://www.myfuturewise.org.uk/futurewise_courses_and_events.aspx
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
US Colleges Open Day dates available
This annual event in Kensington Town Hall will be held on September 27-28 2013. Booking and details are on http://www.fulbright.org.uk/news-events/usa-study-events/usa-college-day
Susan Burke careers website - excellent
I was recommended this website as a resource and it is fantastic. Covers a wide variety of information sources and ideas for those seeking a career or gaining experience. http://susanburkecareers.co.uk/
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
BSc in App design
Glyndwr University in Wrexham is to be the first in the UK to offer a degree in App design. Details on http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/undergraduatecourses/Appdesign/
World Stage Design at WSD in September
Jumping the gun a little as full details will be announced in a couple of weeks . The Welsh College of Design & Drama are hosting the World Stage Design exhibition for 10 days in September. Tickets bookable soon allows pupils to see what would be involved in careers behind the scenes. http://www.wsd2013.com/
Monday, 6 May 2013
Help with Careers in Finance
There is information published about work experience opportunities on http://www.directions.org.uk/getting-in/
A list of video guides on finance careers is at http://www.directions.org.uk/careers/what-finance-documentary/what-finance/
You can also get help from an e-careers mentor to learn about careers in the finance sector
http://www.directions.org.uk/getingeton/how-does-scheme-work/
A list of video guides on finance careers is at http://www.directions.org.uk/careers/what-finance-documentary/what-finance/
You can also get help from an e-careers mentor to learn about careers in the finance sector
http://www.directions.org.uk/getingeton/how-does-scheme-work/
Latest University League tables
The latest
student satisfaction survey has been published in the THES in the same week as the
Complete University Guide. Although the CUG looks at a much broader picture, it
is interesting to compare the tables.
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NO
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STUDENT SATISFACTION
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COMPLETE UNIVERSITY GUIDE
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1
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UEA
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Cambridge
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2
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Oxford
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Oxford
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3
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Sheffield
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LSE
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4
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Cambridge
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Imperial
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5
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Loughborough
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Durham
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6
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Bath
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St Andrews
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7
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Leeds
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UCL
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8
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Dundee
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Warwick
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9
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York St John
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Bath
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10
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Lancaster
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Exeter
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The top 5
for sports facilities were: Loughborough, Bath, East Anglia, Surrey and Brunel,
for industry connections, LSE, Bath, Surrey, Imperial and Loughborough, and for
social life it was, Sheffield, Newcastle, Cardiff, Leeds and East Anglia.
UCAS blogger
Another blog that readers should view is the one from the UCAS team who publish lots of useful help and ideas on navigating the application process. http://ucasonline.blogspot.co.uk/
Advice for Open Days
With so many open days looming it seems sensible to repost advice given in the Telegraph newspaper a few weeks ago http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9203274/How-to-get-the-most-out-of-university-open-days.html
Ah, open days — a time of excitement, wanting to present oneself in the best light and outshine one’s competitors. But that’s enough about the universities. The open day experience can also be useful to pupils and parents.
“Open days are much more important to universities now,” says Richard Taylor, director of corporate affairs at the University of Leicester. And pupils are checking out veritable laundry lists of universities. “They used to visit two or three. Now it’s six or seven — or more,” says Taylor.
They’ll even visit the same university repeatedly, adds Vicky Annand at Goldsmiths, University of London, like newlyweds choosing their first home.
“Open days have become much more professional”, says Donald McLeod, Head of Marketing at the University of Hertfordshire. “They’ve been deconstructed – we now think about every point of the ‘Experience’ from arriving and parking, through meeting ‘ambassador’ guides, having all staff fully briefed on probable questions, and so on.”
And it doesn’t stop there. Durham organise a post-offer overnight Durham Experience); Exeter do specialised subject days; Cirencester give you a free key ring and good coffee.Sheffield, with a Facebook page for potential students to gel, also does good Experience.
Still, there’s room for improvement, says Stuart Youngs at Purpose, a marketing firm which recently ran a round-table on branding for university leaders. Purpose suggest more differentiation, “unpacking a series of excitements” and doing less talking and more listening. They also recommend that universities decide whether they want to attract more students or better students.
The number of visitors in each family group has ballooned. “Pupils used to come on their own or maybe with a parent. Now it’s two parents, grandparents, siblings, you name it,” says Taylor.
And according to Eileen Penman, at The Good Schools Guide’s University Advice Service, big fee rises mean parents aren’t likely to fade back into the woodwork. Many unis now run parallel Experiences for parents, offering them talks on, say, Unending Sacrifice for your Children while their offspring attend one on Nightlife.
“Most kids came with parents”, says sixth-former Imogen Rolfe. “I found it useful to have mine there to discuss it with.” But sometimes it works the other way around. “My daughter went on her own”, says Charlotte Obolensky. “We actually had a row about it as she wanted me to go. She said all the other parents were going.” Victoria Blunt took the same view with her son: “You have to stand back from it and think ‘this is their decision’.”
10-point plan to making the most of the day
1. Do not forget the postcode for the satnav. This is easy to do and has ruined many open day experiences.
2. Parents or no parents — what to do, what to do? Pupils’ antennae will be sharper if they attend solo, but many find it useful to have another set of eyes (and someone to pay for the petrol. And lunch).
3. Can you stand the area? Open days aren’t just about the course — you can find out everything about the course online — they are about whether you want to live in that place for three years. Try and imagine what it might be like on a wet Tuesday in November.
4. Accommodation. How is it allocated? What happens after your first year? Which halls are known for partying, swots or being “Rah?”
5. Sorry to ask, but can you afford the tuition fees and local cost of living? Scottish students get free tuition in Scotland only. Welsh students can venture away from Wales and still benefit from subsidised fees (is this fair, we ask?) Accommodation costs in London and the South East are much higher than in the North/Midlands.
6. If you’re using open days to shortlist your five Ucas choices, ask yourself: would I really enrol here if I got an offer? Don’t choose a “safety” you would shudder to attend.
7. Have questions ready (most of which you won’t get around to asking and all of which are probably answered on the website — but still). How many taught hours per week? Is the course assessed by modules, coursework, class participation (yes, it often counts) or just exams? Can you take part of your degree abroad through an exchange or Erasmus? Who teaches undergraduates — professors or post-grads?
8. If you haven’t already applied, ask current students in your subject area about strategy. Are there subjects aligned with yours that have fewer applicants? If you want to read English, is it easier to get in on Creative Writing, and then transfer, or vice versa? Ask for the mobile number or Facebook contact of every student you talk to so you can grill them later.
9. Distance from home — for many students, the farther the better, unless they feel the opposite. While we’re on distance, what about unis abroad? Trinity, Dublin, is globally famous and in a fabulous city, and the tuition there is free. Or what about courses taught in English at Maastricht or Groningen?
10. Engage in a bit of pre-event planning. “We find a lot of people missing out on what they want to do or see,” says Emma Stephenson, outreach manager at Exeter University. “It’s important to read all the literature about the day in advance.” With any luck you’ll be so clued up you won’t have to go at all.
Above all, remember you can actually visit universities any time. “I had a Saturday job,” says Rachel Spedding, who runs the Oxbridge Applications consultancy, “and I lived in Liverpool, a long way from some universities I was interested in. My mum worked and didn’t have time in the week. So we used to drive down on Sundays — we could look around, speak to students, porters, even a tutor if contacted beforehand.” Any day can be an Open Day with a little determination and planning.
The number of visitors in each family group has ballooned. “Pupils used to come on their own or maybe with a parent. Now it’s two parents, grandparents, siblings, you name it,” says Taylor.
And according to Eileen Penman, at The Good Schools Guide’s University Advice Service, big fee rises mean parents aren’t likely to fade back into the woodwork. Many unis now run parallel Experiences for parents, offering them talks on, say, Unending Sacrifice for your Children while their offspring attend one on Nightlife.
“Most kids came with parents”, says sixth-former Imogen Rolfe. “I found it useful to have mine there to discuss it with.” But sometimes it works the other way around. “My daughter went on her own”, says Charlotte Obolensky. “We actually had a row about it as she wanted me to go. She said all the other parents were going.” Victoria Blunt took the same view with her son: “You have to stand back from it and think ‘this is their decision’.”
10-point plan to making the most of the day
1. Do not forget the postcode for the satnav. This is easy to do and has ruined many open day experiences.
2. Parents or no parents — what to do, what to do? Pupils’ antennae will be sharper if they attend solo, but many find it useful to have another set of eyes (and someone to pay for the petrol. And lunch).
3. Can you stand the area? Open days aren’t just about the course — you can find out everything about the course online — they are about whether you want to live in that place for three years. Try and imagine what it might be like on a wet Tuesday in November.
4. Accommodation. How is it allocated? What happens after your first year? Which halls are known for partying, swots or being “Rah?”
5. Sorry to ask, but can you afford the tuition fees and local cost of living? Scottish students get free tuition in Scotland only. Welsh students can venture away from Wales and still benefit from subsidised fees (is this fair, we ask?) Accommodation costs in London and the South East are much higher than in the North/Midlands.
6. If you’re using open days to shortlist your five Ucas choices, ask yourself: would I really enrol here if I got an offer? Don’t choose a “safety” you would shudder to attend.
7. Have questions ready (most of which you won’t get around to asking and all of which are probably answered on the website — but still). How many taught hours per week? Is the course assessed by modules, coursework, class participation (yes, it often counts) or just exams? Can you take part of your degree abroad through an exchange or Erasmus? Who teaches undergraduates — professors or post-grads?
8. If you haven’t already applied, ask current students in your subject area about strategy. Are there subjects aligned with yours that have fewer applicants? If you want to read English, is it easier to get in on Creative Writing, and then transfer, or vice versa? Ask for the mobile number or Facebook contact of every student you talk to so you can grill them later.
9. Distance from home — for many students, the farther the better, unless they feel the opposite. While we’re on distance, what about unis abroad? Trinity, Dublin, is globally famous and in a fabulous city, and the tuition there is free. Or what about courses taught in English at Maastricht or Groningen?
10. Engage in a bit of pre-event planning. “We find a lot of people missing out on what they want to do or see,” says Emma Stephenson, outreach manager at Exeter University. “It’s important to read all the literature about the day in advance.” With any luck you’ll be so clued up you won’t have to go at all.
Above all, remember you can actually visit universities any time. “I had a Saturday job,” says Rachel Spedding, who runs the Oxbridge Applications consultancy, “and I lived in Liverpool, a long way from some universities I was interested in. My mum worked and didn’t have time in the week. So we used to drive down on Sundays — we could look around, speak to students, porters, even a tutor if contacted beforehand.” Any day can be an Open Day with a little determination and planning.
Janette Wallis is a senior editor of The Good Schools Guide (goodschoolsguide.co.uk)
Friday, 3 May 2013
Headstart Cymru Engineering summer schools
Summer schools at Universities throughout wales can be signed up for now by potential Engineers currently in year 12
http://www.stemcymru.org.uk/project-strands/headstart-cymru/
http://www.stemcymru.org.uk/project-strands/headstart-cymru/
Improve your chances of becoming a doctor or lawyer
There are courses available for booking now on http://www.epoc.org.uk/ I guess they would suit current Year 11 most of all who would be 16/17 next Spring
Leaflets about careers - useful for research
The Careers Wales website has some of the most comprehensive listings of leaflets and information available about careers for anyone researching careers
https://www.careerswales.com/server.php?show=nav.9699
https://www.careerswales.com/server.php?show=nav.9699
Summer courses for Year 12
The University of Manchester is offering one day Discovery days across a number of science based subjects plus Law, English and History from end June to early July. The link for Manchester is http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/discover-days/
The Unversity of Lancaster offers free residential courses in a number of subject areas, although you have to qualify under one of the following conditions
comes from a home where neither parent attended university in the UK or abroad, straight after post 16 education
is, or has been a looked after young person
is in receipt of, or entitled to, free school meals
has experienced difficult family or individual circumstances that the School/College believe have affected their performance in exams or the likelihood of them going to university
has a disability that they feel would prevent them from progressing to higher education
Also on offer is a course for Gifted and Talented year 10. All details are on http://www.lancs.ac.uk/schools/summer-schools/
Universities in London have a searchable page across all subject areas http://tasters.gradsintocareers.co.uk/
Food and Nutritional Sciences at reading have a 3 day course in mid July http://www.reading.ac.uk/food/shortcourses/foodbio-sixthform.aspx
Operating practice and Nursing taster days from Anglia Ruskin
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/fhsce/news-events/taster_days.html
There is also the generic website with details of 100s more around the UK http://www.unitasterdays.com/
The Unversity of Lancaster offers free residential courses in a number of subject areas, although you have to qualify under one of the following conditions
Universities in London have a searchable page across all subject areas http://tasters.gradsintocareers.co.uk/
Food and Nutritional Sciences at reading have a 3 day course in mid July http://www.reading.ac.uk/food/shortcourses/foodbio-sixthform.aspx
Operating practice and Nursing taster days from Anglia Ruskin
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/fhsce/news-events/taster_days.html
There is also the generic website with details of 100s more around the UK http://www.unitasterdays.com/
Thursday, 2 May 2013
RBS work experience and employability bootcamps
RBS are offering 2 day work experience in London
or Edinburgh with a chance to gain experience in a large financial institution. For year 12 they are organising Employability
Bootcamps with dates tbc where they meet all expenses.
https://www.rbsbankyoubuild.com/school-initiatives/where-do-i-start
https://www.rbsbankyoubuild.com/school-initiatives/where-do-i-start
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
courses for potential dentists
http://www.oxbridgeprodental.com//Home.html has numerous courses many need booking early although they are not until December.
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