Skills Drop-in Sessions and Maths Support

Drop-in Sessions for Additional Skills Development

Drop-in skills sessions operate on a first come first served basis. You may attend individually or in a small group. You will be able to talk to one of the Skills Development Team for 20 minutes to discuss your particular concerns.

We will help you to identify your skills challenges, offer advice on how to study more effectively, and recommend resources or learning activities that will help you to improve your work.

All sessions are treated in confidence. We keep information about the sessions we have provided to allow us to evaluate and improve the service but we do not share information about individual students.

Please note:

• We aim to work with you on your skills challenges and are not able to provide subject specific advice. For advice about your subject please speak to your module tutor
• We do not proof read work. See our guide to effective proof reading (pdf 291k) to help you to develop your skills in this area.
• We recognise that students may require follow-up support but we may limit the number of sessions an individual student may attend in one term to ensure that other students are able to access the service.

Skills for Learning drop-in session times:

Come and talk to one of the Skills Team in the new Skills Zone (MD112) City Campus

Walsall Campus

Burton and Telford Support

Monthly drop-in sessions and skills workshops take place at Burton Campus. Fortnightly drop-in sessions and skills workshops take place at Telford Campus.

Additional Needs

If you wish to attend a skills session but need to arrange for a support worker or an interpreter to be present, you may make an appointment for a specific time. Please contact us with your request.

Feedback: We welcome your comments and suggestions; if you have attended a drop-in session please complete our short feedback form.

New Maths Support in the Skills Zone

The maths support centre is open to all students from any school studying any subject in any year. If you want help with any level of mathematics, statistics or numeracy come and ask.

The maths support centre is staffed by the academic staff from the Mathematics department alongside some of our first class graduates and postgraduate mathematics students. We can go through your notes with you, show you extra examples, go through a specific technique with you or teach you how to use the specialist maths or statistical software we have available.

For example:

• Nursing or Pharmacy students struggling with those drug calculations, come and ask us for some extra help.
• Engineering students having trouble understanding partial fractions, come and ask us to explain it
• Having difficulty completing the statistical analysis for your final year project, come and ask us for advice.
• Facing a numeracy test at your interview, come and ask us about improving your skills.

All our staff are friendly, approachable and willing to help.

Maths Support Centre session times

Skills Zone (MD112) City Campus

Week beginning 23rd April - week beginning 7th May 2012

Week beginning 14th May - week beginning 11th June 2012

Week beginning 18th June - week beginning 2nd July 2012