One aim of the UCAS and applications programme we run at d'Overbroeck's is to get students thinking about the choices they are making – by presenting them with a variety of people and places and options that they might not otherwise have considered.
To this end, last week saw two events for Upper Sixth students:
Event 1: Sandwiches at Bournemouth?
On Tuesday, we were visited by Ricky Hale – a current Business Studies undergraduate at Bournemouth University who's spending a 'sandwich year' working for (instead of studying at) the university. So he spoke about the experience of being a student, yet not a student.
He also told us about the kinds of thing that Bournemouth media students have gone on to do (such as producing King Kong's fur for the recent movie), and described the new multi-million pound media centre built by the university.
For two years running, Bournemouth University has been 'best new university' and is ranked 12th in the country for Media courses (according to the Guardian).
Event 2: Gap years during a recession
With the economy in recession, jobs in short supply and tuition fees looking set to rise dramatically after the election, is a Gap Year still a viable option for students?
Phil Murray, Director of independent advisory service GapAdvice came to talk to our students to show how they can still take a Gap Year, despite all the bad economic news.
Whether it ends up just being 3 months of voluntary work between the end of their exams and the start of their new life at uni, or the 15 months they actually have after they finish their A levels.
Gapadvice.org provides independent gap year advice and has been described by the BBC as 'an extremely useful and reliable resource'.
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