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How does your FE college support part time/evening UCAS applicants? |
I am interested in discovering how FE colleges support their part time/evening students and those that have left the college and decided to apply after being out of education/in work for a year or so through the UCAS process.
In my college over 450 applicants apply to HE each year and they are supported by a mixture of personal tutor support and additional workshops/interviews/e-guidance from Careers Advisers and myself. Around 30 of these students are part time students who don't have access to personal tutors or the support provided in the day. A colleague and I have provided additional evening workshops but this has proved costly and the support we provide goes way beyond the allocated 1 hour per student - we have suggested that a minimum of 3/4 hours per student would be the very least needed with regards to covering the support basics, checking forms, collating reference etc. Most full time students have tutorial sessions over at the very least one term to guide them through the UCAS process to the point of completing their application.
If you are in an FE college and offer support to students who do not fit the 'day time' model perhaps you could share how, if you do at all, offer face to face support to such students aside from referring them to external Careers services. We have had suggestions that we attempt to draw down funding to support part time students by offering support as an OCN unit etc but this approach has flaws. I would be really keen to hear if other FE colleges provide 'additional' support for UCAS applicants in the absence of a personal tutor and how much support they provide. |
| Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2008 10:42 am |
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Re: How does your FE college support part time/evening UCAS applicants? |
| We have a similar no. applying to UCAS from our FE/HE College. All our PT students must have a tutor, usually the one who teaches them so help should come from them and they would write the reference. This is often difficult however. I have posted helpsheets on the college Blackboard (intranet) on Applying to UCAS; Writing a Personal Statement etc. They have access to my email and tel. number and telephone appts. are common. Face to face is best but we have found this the next best thing. |
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Re: How does your FE college support part time/evening UCAS applicants? |
Jane I think this is an important issue, I'd like to put this is the next newsletter. Could you email this text to me:
andygardnerucc@hotmail.com |
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Re: How does your FE college support part time/evening UCAS applicants? |
| At college we support both full-time and part-time students applying to university. Some of our mature students require more support as thet are not assigned a personal tutor. I run a weekly twilight session where I support p/t or new students re returning to college. This year I saw several ex-students who applied to university and I was able to support them through my twilight sessions. |
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