Undergraduate Webinars

Shelby: [00:00:04] Hello and welcome to our Virtual Open Day. I'm Shelby. A third year criminology and security studies student at BCU, of course, we would normally be welcoming you to one of our lovely campuses in either Birmingham City Centre or leafy Edgbaston. But we're not able to do this at the moment. So we're going to bring our campuses to you. We're really glad you're able to join us today and we can't quite see lots of you in person very soon. Over the course of today's virtual event, you'll have the chance to look around our buildings from academics on the courses you're interested in and have your questions answered on admissions, accommodation and student finance. If you haven't already signed up for the sessions you're interested in, please make sure you do so once this talk is finished. Now, normally at this point in an open day on campus, I'd be sat on stage at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, but I came to talk to you all about what it's like to be a student here at BCU, once our Vice Chancellor, Professor Philip Plowden, has welcomed you all to the university, and I'm still going to do they say you can hear a little bit more about the opportunities and experiences I've had, and you could, too, if you choose to come to BCU. But first, I would like to introduce you to Professor Plowden from the stage of the conservatoire who's going to introduce you all to our very special university. [00:01:09][65.5] Professor Philip Plowden: [00:01:11] Welcome virtually to the amazing Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a proud part of Birmingham City University. And welcome to this unusual virtual open day talk from myself, I'm Philip Plowden, I'm the Vice Chancellor here at Birmingham City University. And I'm sorry that we can't get you in in person for the open day, but you'll appreciate that we need to ensure not only that we protect your health and wellbeing, but particularly that we look after the health and wellbeing of all of our staff and all of our students. But I do want to say that if in due course you get the opportunity to come and visit us do come and visit, because there's nothing quite like being here. But if you're having to take your decision based on what you're seeing online, please be confident that this is a university that is growing fast. That has confidence in its own future and is in this amazing city, which opens up opportunities for all of our students going forward. So thank you for watching this. [00:01:11][0.0] [65.5]