Hi, my name is Helena. I'm a lecturer in English, and I want to tell you about the three day course and it's a Russell Group Launch Pad for young students thinking about going either to do an undergraduate degree, a MA or a PhD postgraduate study.

 

The course will be run in Manchester and initially we are looking at your strengths and your weaknesses and how what you need as an individual to prepare yourself, for your academic career. So the three days will consist of an academic research, we will be going to museums and art galleries, we will be looking at how young people struggle to find the confidence and talk about themselves and their own strengths. So we will be doing this in a process that will be very individually based, it will be bespoke so at the beginning of the three days I will ask students to write down their own strengths and weaknesses and what they feel.

 

They need to find in the course what they would like to look for. What they feel that their weaknesses are. Whether it's being able to research, whether it's confidence, whether it's speaking or presenting whether it's working as part of a team, or just grammar and spelling. All of this can be written down and given to me and I will make sure that all of these criteria will be covered during the three days, that is, the individual greatness of this course.

 

So we will be going to a major hotel and looking at English culture and the differences between cultures and what you can bring as an individual. Talk about the cities of England you choose to study, whether it be Manchester, London, Oxford or Cambridge or Durham. Any of these Russell group universities and main universities, we will be geared towards your academic vigor in this area. So by the end of the three days, you will have formulated with your peers a presentation that will be shared and you will get feedback on.

 

Also be writing a mock UCAS form, so a form that you would fill out for university and you will be given feedback on this form, by the time you get to those three days, you will have all the skills to enable you to write down a proficient and excellent form. Then you will be given a mock interview, based on the information and this form. And you will be told how you do in this interview, you will be given feedback on your strengths and your weaknesses within the interview. So by the end of these three days, you will be professional and confident in the skills that you need in order to get yourself into a Russell group university and launch yourself on that path.

 

Thank you. Look forward to seeing you there.