School Liaison Guide

A guide to School Liaison at Cardiff Met

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A guide to School Liaison Welcome to the School Liaison 5 minute guide to the services we can offer you at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

We appreciate that your timetable and time is very limited, however this step by step guide will give you an idea of the free services we can offer you over the year, and how we can support you and your students. We call it “working together�.

Each section within the guide will give you the information on talks and visit days we offer, the time of year and year suitability which it applies to e.g. year 12 or year 13.

We hope you will find this guide of help, but please do contact us if you have any specific requests.

The team at School Liaison Team email: jjbrennan@cardiffmet.ac.uk tel: 029 2041 7117

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Did you know?  Cardiff Metropolitan University is ranked as the leading new University in Wales - source The Complete University Guide 2012 and The Times Good University Guide 2012

 We have the largest Business School in Wales - source HESA 2009/10 student statistics

 We have the highest number of sports students in the UK - source HESA 2009/10 student statistics

 Student satisfaction continues to grow with 82% overall satisfaction with our courses - source NSS 2011

 90% of our graduates enter

 Many of our courses are accredited by professional bodies.

 £4.9m Food Industry Centre opened in 2009, Taking advantage of our new research laboratories, the university is enhancing its excellent reputation for food safety research.

 £22m Business Centre opened in September 2010 , enabling the school to become a leading centre in the UK for teaching and research in subjects including Business, Hospitality and Tourism.

 We are currently building a new £14M building investment for Art & Design

employment or further study within 6 months of graduating - source DLHE 2011 results

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Brief overview on offer 

Introduction to Higher Education – the next step

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Choosing a Course

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The UCAS Procedures

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Finance talks – students

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Finance Talks – Parents evenings

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Student Life

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Specific Subject area talks e.g. sport/Business

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Visit Days – request able

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Open Days

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Logging on to UCAS

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School Careers Evening

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Throughout the year Term 1 September - December

Term 2 January - March

YEAR 12 Introduction to Higher Education - The next Step This talk covers the “next step”, the transmission from year 11 to year 12 or college is sometimes a completely over powering experience for the student. Past students have mentioned that the change from year 11 to year 12 is daunting and liberating! The talk covers the “cycle” that year 12 can expect during the next two years - informative and lasts 50 minutes.

YEAR 12 Choosing a course With over 40,000 + courses and over 329 institutions there’s a lot of choice out there!

This presentation will start your students thinking about courses which are available to them and how to search on the UCAS Many students are unaware of the vast amount of courses out there, and many do not appreciate that “English” can consist of 2238 related subjects! ,last 50 minutes and combines the introduction to UCAS event.

YEAR 13 UCAS Procedures including Personal Statements This talk prepares the student for their ucas application – This addresses the complete UCAS application from “why go to University?”, finding the right university and hints on preparing the personal statement – lasts 50 minutes

YEAR 12 PARENTS The UCAS Procedure This presentation involves the parents of year 12 students and is usually presented during an evening session. It enables parents to understand the UCAS procedure – last approximately 60 minutes

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YEAR 12 Visit Days Visit days are available on request. Cardiff Met currently offers subject specific and sixth form visit days. For full details contact James Brennan at: email: jjbrennan@cardiffmet.ac.uk tel: 029 2041 7117

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YEAR 13 Finance Talk Finance is one of the biggest concerns when going to university and recent changes have made this complicated to understand. However, this finance session will involve all the students with a game quiz known as “university challenge”.

Students become involved immediately guessing and balancing a year at university.

A fun way of looking at finance – last 50 minutes.

YEAR 13 Parents Finance Talk Finance is one of the major concerns for parents. This presentation will help parents understand the costs of going to university as well as the grants and loans available.

This is presented during an evening session and lasts approx 60 minutes.

Term 3 April – July

YEAR 12/13 Subject Talks There are many individual subjects that we can offer e.g. sport talk/business. Contact the school liaison section for further details

The Next Step All talks are subject to availability; unfortunately due to tight timetables most schools require talks on the same day of the same month and therefore we get booked up very quickly.

So book up and ring as soon as your term start. A member of the school liaison team will be on hand to take your call.

School Liaison Section tel: 029 2041 7117

YEAR 13 Student Life The life as a student is not all about studying as any student will tell you! It is about the experience of becoming independent, meeting new friends and budgeting. This talk is given by a recent student graduate who has experienced the university life last 50 minutes.

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school liaison Western Avenue Rhodfa’r Gorllewin Cardiff Caerdydd CF5 2YB CF5 2YB Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 7117 Ffôn: +44 (0)29 2041 7117 Fax: +44 (0)29 2041 6286 Ffacs: +44 (0)29 2041 6286 email: jjbrennan@cardiffmet.ac.uk ebost: jjbrennan@cardiffmet.ac.uk cardiffmet.ac.uk cardiffmet.ac.uk