Being a partner in your own education

You’ll have to take responsibility for your own learning to get the most out of your studies. Being a proactive participant will make this much easier to achieve. Watch the video to see how some of our students took on this challenge.

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How do you take responsibility for your learning?

I take up my own learning by making sure to stay organised. So, I usually make a note of when my deadlines are so that I give myself plenty of time before the deadline.

I make sure to dedicate a few days or I give myself time slots to do a plan. I tell myself I'm going to write the introduction and the abstract. This way it gives me enough time, so I don't have to stress the night before the deadline. I don't have to write it all then.

I have a personal academic tutor. Some meetings we are required to kind of go to, but then we can pop in and see them whenever we're struggling with something.

I see my tutor quite regularly. You can do it online or in person, and it's really flexible. I think I stopped my tutor in the corridor once and said, “I just need to grab you really quickly about this.” So, it's definitely not a controlled environment.

I take advantage of booking hours because each lecturer would give us certain times, we can visit them and ask them more personally about what we need and the support that we need.

I feel like that's my way of taking responsibility of what I'm supposed to do, and that will help me get the best results I could possibly get.

Feedback for me is usually online. So, we submit the assignment, whatever it is, and then they give it back to us. But I would definitely say that we get more feedback than we would with just a grade.

They put more emphasis on telling us “this is what you did well, this is what you could do better”. They will incorporate their own experiences as well, so they'll say, “Oh well, I used to do it like this, and now I do this” and it just makes you feel a lot more related to, a lot more comfortable.

It's much easier to take it on board. And again, if there's ever any other issues, you can just go back and see them. So, I think it's a great system.