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This booklet is designed that will help you provide the simplest suggestion and aid on your youngster who desires to visit university.
All the most important components of a college schooling are lined, from selecting the best direction, knowing collage league tables and getting a spot, all the way through to maximising possibilities after graduation.
We give some thought to the entire severe occasions the place your help and expert recommendation will be important and assist you to identify while issues are going correct and after they are not.
It’s no longer approximately protecting your child’s hand. It’s approximately giving sound recommendation - an arm round the shoulder - to permit your baby to mature at college, to stick heading in the right direction for an outstanding measure, and to forge how you can a profitable career.
The authors are skilled collage employees who've drawn at the wisdom they've got received as tutors, as academics, and as mom and dad themselves.
Clearly laid out and entirely illustrated through case experiences, this ebook is your advisor in your children’ luck at college.
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Third, he did a placement. Experience of work was critical in motivating Joshua and changed his whole approach to work. It is likely that his choice of course was critical, not because the subject material was important but because the discipline of computing and its associated work developed his management skills. His placement showed him that he could work well with people. Would a placement suit Chris? Fourth and finally, doors did not close for Joshua just because he made a sequence of poor decisions.
Nevertheless, keep your parental radar alert because some students don’t handle their new-found freedom too well. Universities are not dens of iniquity when it comes to casual sex, binge drinking and illegal drugs – we’ll pass over our personal experiences at this point – but the temptation may be there for young people in a new environment. If you detect changes that you think might be outside the normal ‘maturing’ process, it might be worth mentioning to Chris the support services that universities provide for their students (see Chapter 8 Student support services).
Computers are increasingly used by students to access information on the internet, to prepare assignments, to communicate with friends and academic staff, etc. The university will provide computing facilities but there will never be enough. The university may have a scheme to sell or lease computers to students. These will normally be cheaper than the high street prices so if she does not have one already, and she wants one, then it may be best to leave it until she gets to university. Also, for certain degree courses there may be a requirement to run particular software, so the specification of the computer may be important too.
