Centre for Academic Success - student support

Overview

Centre for Academic Success

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The Centre for Academic Success is the University's central learning development service. Our aim is to help you develop all of the necessary academic, technical and numerical skills you need to progress and successfully complete your course.

We are based on the first floor of the Curzon Building in Room C142, overlooking the Success+ Assessment Centre. We also provide services online and across the University.

Take the Steps to Success Discovery Tool.

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We have directions to our office on our internal iCity pages:

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Additionally, we provide some extra support for staff members. Find out more about extra support for staff.

How we can help you succeed

The Centre for Academic Success can help with:

Academic essay and report writing
English
Referencing
Dissertations
Presentation skills
Maths and statistics
Computing and programming
Project management
Study skills

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We are here to help, whatever your level of study. We offer:

One-to-one and small group tutorial sessions
Academic and personal development workshops
Online study resources
Feedback on your assignment drafts

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Workshops and tutorials

Workshops

All of our listed workshops are available for any student in the university to attend.

We also run some drop in sessions where our tutors will be available for you to seek support without having to book ahead.

If you cannot find a workshop or drop in that you think will help you, consider booking a tutorial.

Tutorials

Tutorials are available for all students to attend, and there are slots available for 30 minutes or one hour. In this time you will see a tutor who can help you with any specific issues you are having.

It is recommended that you look to see if there are any workshops that will answer any questions you have before booking a one to one tutorial.

See more on our workshops and tutorials

Online resources

We have created and collated a range of online resources, which may help address some of your queries or issues.

These include:

Study guides
Referencing guides
Workshop materials
Subject specific help

If you still feel you need more support after viewing any of these resources, feel free to attend a workshop, or book a tutorial, where we can help you further.

See our online resources

Help for international students

International students can access any of the support that we give to all students, including all of our workshops.

We also offer some support specifically for international students, like our English language workshops and conversation clubs, tutorials for English language support, and resources specifically designed around English language support.

See our support for international students

Student life coaching

Student life coaching is a service in place for first year repeating students. Our Student Life Coaches are here to help you explore your individual strengths and challenges so you can achieve your academic goals. We work with you on a 1:1 basis to improve your study strategies, your time management and organisational skills and other skills that lead directly to academic success and deeper learning.

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Specific learning differences (such as dyslexia)

If you have been identified as having a specific learning difference, such as dyslexia, we can offer you the same sort of support we give to all students, with any necessary reasonable adjustments.

If you think you may have a specific learning difference, or need specialised support around this, you should contact the Disability Support team.

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Contact us:

Email: success@bcu.ac.uk

Please contact us for more information about the services we provide, or for any requests for bespoke workshops or talks.

Centre for Academic Success - student support