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Skills for Success programme

Skills sessions each semester to enhance your academic performance and boost your employability skills.

Our interactive Skills for Success sessions have been carefully designed to help you at different stages of your academic journey, whether you are tackling your first essay, preparing for exams, or writing your dissertation.

You can find 5 great reasons to attend a skills enrichment workshop on our blog.

"These sessions helped to build my confidence and allowed me to explore new skills that I wouldn’t have known about. I had a lot of feedback on how to structure my essay. By working on this issue, I was able to improve my essay and reach higher grades." (Sophie Benton, BSc Biomedical Sciences with Professional Placement)

Sessions

Find out more about the Skills for Success sessions:

Students with laptops in a lecture theatre listening to a lecturer.
  • Writing toolkit: Eleven sessions in total, aimed at improving your academic practice.
  • Communication Skills: Four sessions that support better communication in your university journey.
  • Communication and Employability Skills: Four sessions that feed directly into your future professional identity.
  • Public Speaking: These sessions are not running in semester 1. If you are interested in attending a Public Speaking workshop in semester 2, let us know by completing this Expression of Interest form. If there is sufficient interest, we will consider making these workshops available in future.

More information

What you need to know about the sessions and how to book.

The sessions run each semester and are suitable for all students at all levels of study. Access a summary of all sessions.

All sessions are 50 minutes long either in-person on campus or live online (LOIL) on Microsoft Teams.

Advance booking is required on MySkills. Before signing up for a session, please make sure that the day and time do not clash with your academic timetable by checking MyTimetable.

You can learn more about our Skills for Success sessions in the following student blogs:

Please note, sessions may be cancelled at short notice if there is insufficient take-up. We will advise you as soon as possible if a session is cancelled.

*Our 'Skills for Success' sessions were previously known as 'Skills Enrichment'. The quality and purpose remain however, the name has changed to better reflect our mission to help you succeed.

Certificates

We offer digital certificates to recognise your participation in our programmes, which you can use in your skills portfolios going forward. There are two options, detailed below.

Writing toolkit certificate

Attend and participate in all eleven of our writing toolkit sessions, spread across either one or both semesters of the academic year 2024-2025.

Complete skills toolkit certificate

Attend and participate in all of our writing toolkit sessions, communication, communication and employability, and public speaking sessions, spread across either one or both semesters of the academic year 2024-2025.

How to book

Book a session on MySkills

Contact us

If you have any questions about our Skills for Success programme, please get in touch.