Main Task 2: listening to the views of university students and staff
Pupils listen to selected short podcast excerpts about the sorts of skills / knowledge and awareness that are useful for achieving success at university.
Chris
Chris, secondary teacher, reflects on conversations he has with his pupils about the importance of developing independent learning skills (00:38)
Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie, secondary teacher, agrees that independence is key for her pupils who want to move onto university (01:04)
Emily
Emily Nordmann, psychology lecturer, believes that young people should focus on a few fundamental skills, and not so much the academic side of things at first! (02:25)
Andrew
Andrew Struan, head of the Student Learning Development team, talks about T2G, a programme designed to help students adjust to university in the early stages (01:12)
Pearl
Pearl, undergraduate student, talks about her realisation that there’s no need to be intimidated by all the changes that university brings (01:52)
Emily
Emily Nordmann again, this time talking about the idea of “distributed practice”, which is a specific approach to effective studying and retaining information (02:05)
Andrew
Andrew Struan again, this time talking about how he helps students to develop time management skills (02:01)