Student Learning Experience

The student university learning experience is not just about an academic experience but also about the many different aspects of the university learning experience which are open to you. It starts as a journey from induction week through to graduation. University is about more than just the classroom!

PAL (Peer Assisted Learning)

PAL is a student-to-student support service that gives you, as a student, the opportunity to improve your understanding of core modules. It provides the opportunity for the academic and personal development of not just the attendees but also the PAL Leaders as well (Capstick, 2003).

You can become a PAL leader if you do well on a module and have the confidence (after training) to assist your peers in supporting them understand the module.

Find out more about Peer Assisted Learning

Module Assistants Scheme

In your second year, you can help module leaders on large modules (over 100 students) in the Business School with the administration of their modules. This includes:

• Organising materials;
• Assisting with module evaluations;
• Monitoring attendance, etc.

Find out more about the Module Assistant Scheme

Student Research Projects

There are opportunities to work on research projects. For example, ASKe funded two student led research projects based on the colonisation of the Eights Café and Simon Williams Undergraduate Centre. The findings of these papers can be found here.

Also there are opportunities to undertake real-world research on both Postgraduate and Undergraduate modules.

Work Experience

Industrial placements in your third year help you to apply what you have learnt in class to practice (and you get paid). Voluntary work and part-time jobs can also give you useful work experience. Visit the Work and Voluntary Experience Services website to see the kind of work experience that is on offer.

Student Exchanges

You can study for a semester in another country. Click here for more information.

Student Learning and Teaching Network (SLTN)

This network allows you to meet students from other universities and exchange ideas and knowledge about how they do things at their universities. Join the network and be part of a wider community.