There are a wide range of personal development opportunities for students at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. Some will take you outside of your academic field, others will enhance your skills and help prepare you for the world of work or further study. In some cases, you will get recognition on your final transcript.

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Centre for Academic English

The Centre for Academic English has an experienced team that specialises in STEMM communication. Whether you are native or non-native English speaker, undergraduate or postgraduate, the Centre has a range of programmes to support your academic writing skills.
The Centre runs courses, workshops and one-to-one consultations focusing on:

• Academic communication
• Course requirements and assignments
• External engagement
• Research and impact

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Support for your career

The Careers Service can help you to start thinking about your career and get ready to take your next big step. Through workshops, events, and one-to-one appointments the Careers Service offer everything you need to explore your options, develop your skills, and connect with employers and further study providers. Wherever you are in your career journey, they’ll guide you along the way from day one of studies through into graduation.

Click here to find out more about the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Award

51³Ô¹ÏÍø Horizons

51³Ô¹ÏÍø Horizons is a programme for undergraduate students offering a wide range of modules to stimulate your personal, professional and intellectual growth. Horizons focuses on three fields of study:

• Change Makers
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Languages

The modules are also available as an i-Explore option, so you can take a module as part of your degree and the majority of departments will allow you to take a module for degree credit.

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Success Guide

Whether you’re an undergraduate student, undertaking your Master’s or beginning your research career as a doctoral student, we have genius advice to help you with your studies in the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Success Guide. It covers everything from developing your study and research skills, managing assessments and feedback, to the resources we have at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø that you can use to make the most of your studies.

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StudentShapers

StudentShapers is a programme developed between 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College and 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College Union to support partnership between staff and students. StudentShapers encourages projects in educational development and educational research. The programme is available to all staff and students. StudentShapers provides financial support to students to facilitate them taking part in these partnership activities, as well as providing a framework to ensure projects have as high an impact as possible.

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Success Guide

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