Start anew at UCP

WHERE BEING SMALLER COUNTS

Start building a new future with University Centre Peterborough and attend its Open Days to see what degrees are on offer to put your career back on track

"The feeling of community and amount of hard work that all the lecturers and tutors put in makes a real positive impact on the students."

Hayley

What financial help is there for you?

Mature students are entitled to exactly the same tuition fee loans as school leavers going to university. Mature students can also apply for a maintenance loan of up to £9,488 per year (which helps with your cost of living) as well as accessing additional finance support such as a Childcare Grant (up to £179.62 per week for one child or up to £307.95 for two or more children), a Parents’ Learning Allowance (up to £1,821 per year) as well as cash bursaries.

Over the past year, the campus at University Centre Peterborough (UCP) has still been open for its students to study a degree locally, but due to the Coronavirus pandemic the campus could not be open to visitors – until now. With national restrictions being lifted, UCP are all set to welcome the public to their Open Days in July and August. UCP pride themselves on being able to offer a personal learning environment and recognise how important this is for mature students and parents of young children. Being able to fit a degree around family, work or personal commitments by studying in full days can make it much easier to gain a degree to improve future careers prospects. As University Centre Peterborough is a smaller institution it has also been able to offer face-toface teaching on campus during the pandemic, unlike many larger universities in the UK that have had to move all their teaching online. As class sizes at UCP vary between ten and 30 people within generous classrooms, it has been safe to offer everyone at least one day a week of face-to-face learning on campus. As the majority of courses at UCP are timetabled two days a week, this means that all students have had at least 50% of their week in-person. As all courses were treated equally, it didn’t matter if students were studying more practical subjects like Biological Sciences, Forensic Investigation and Performing Arts or desk-based subjects like Business Management, English Literature and Sociology – everyone has had face-to-face teaching on campus and we hope this will continue. Students receive individual support from lecturers and staff and become part of its close community of students. As well as lectures, there are individual and group tutorials so students never feel there is no-one to speak to.

Visit www.ucp.ac.uk/events to register for the upcoming Open Days in July and August or the regular 1:1 Advice Sessions.