University. Daughter can’t choose.
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My Daughter is struggling to choose between Brunel and Sussex for an International Business degree.
We are in France so visiting isn’t a straightforward affair,she has watch Youtube vids and trawled the internet for info but can’t find what she is looking for(whatever that may be) to help make the final decision.
Any body have children at either university or shed some light on her dilemma?
We are in France so visiting isn’t a straightforward affair,she has watch Youtube vids and trawled the internet for info but can’t find what she is looking for(whatever that may be) to help make the final decision.
Any body have children at either university or shed some light on her dilemma?
t hole. Give the recruitment teams at each university a call, they should be well setup to answer any questions. If you still don’t get the information that you need then ask to speak to course leaders directly - they should be able to organise this for you. If they can’t/won’t facilitate those discussions then question what access will be like when there as a fee paying student! Regardless of your political view on such things you are - in essence - a customer and they should be ‘selling’ to you at this stage- so make them work for it!
If it’s less around the academic side then ask if they have a student ambassador programme, they may be able to connect you to current students who will help with questions about student life, housing, social life etc.
The unistats (https://discoveruni.gov.uk/) site will give you some useful insight as well as part of decision making. Although some of the information on there is taken from the institutions themselves and should be taken with a dose of cynicism because it is sometimes manipulated to appear more positive... allegedly!
If it’s less around the academic side then ask if they have a student ambassador programme, they may be able to connect you to current students who will help with questions about student life, housing, social life etc.
The unistats (https://discoveruni.gov.uk/) site will give you some useful insight as well as part of decision making. Although some of the information on there is taken from the institutions themselves and should be taken with a dose of cynicism because it is sometimes manipulated to appear more positive... allegedly!
Edited by mosp on Friday 14th February 20:10
smifffymoto said:
My Daughter is struggling to choose between Brunel and Sussex for an International Business degree.
We are in France so visiting isn’t a straightforward affair,she has watch Youtube vids and trawled the internet for info but can’t find what she is looking for(whatever that may be) to help make the final decision.
Any body have children at either university or shed some light on her dilemma?
My Son is at Sussex doing biomedical sciences, he seems to be really enjoying himself, Brighton is a pretty good student place to live apparentlyWe are in France so visiting isn’t a straightforward affair,she has watch Youtube vids and trawled the internet for info but can’t find what she is looking for(whatever that may be) to help make the final decision.
Any body have children at either university or shed some light on her dilemma?
mosp said:
Give the recruitment teams at each university a call, they should be well setup to answer any questions. If you still don’t get the information that you need then ask to speak to course leaders directly - they should be able to organise this for you. If they can’t/won’t facilitate those discussions then question what access will be like when there as a fee paying student! Regardless of your political view on such things you are - in essence - a customer and they should be ‘selling’ to you at this stage- so make them work for it!
If it’s less around the academic side then ask if they have a student ambassador programme, they may be able to connect you to current students who will help with questions about student life, housing, social life etc.
The unistats (https://discoveruni.gov.uk/) site will give you some useful insight as well as part of decision making. Although some of the information on there is taken from the institutions themselves and should be taken with a dose of cynicism because it is sometimes manipulated to appear more positive... allegedly!
That's a fair set of advice, some of the information on that discovering.gov.uk site comes from earlier surveys by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and it's true that in the information provided there is a significant element of gaming by universities. That's why the data collection method, ie phone and online contact by the university themselves, is in the process of being changed to an outsourced central provider in order to prevent this gaming of the stats. Unfortunately the data arising from the initial trials aren't yet publicly available, but the universities themselves should have their own data available. Also of note some unis (many probably) are continuing to do their own data collection in parallel, possibly to put results of tgose in their own marketing information.If it’s less around the academic side then ask if they have a student ambassador programme, they may be able to connect you to current students who will help with questions about student life, housing, social life etc.
The unistats (https://discoveruni.gov.uk/) site will give you some useful insight as well as part of decision making. Although some of the information on there is taken from the institutions themselves and should be taken with a dose of cynicism because it is sometimes manipulated to appear more positive... allegedly!
Edited by mosp on Friday 14th February 20:10
If she looks at http://hesa.ac.uk can get some access to data before recruitment teams have massaged the data to their own ends. Big files though and difficult to understand to be fair, and there are many of the files restricted to approved HE users.
Another point to note is that it's not just all about data on earning potential for example. Important factors on issues away from the course that are important to students, for example a student with a disability may favour a uni which makes a strong effort to support disabled students in assisting and improving their experience both on the course and in general student life over a university that may be stronger academically.
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