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Duration at BRGS Sixth Form: 2000-2002 |
Previous
school: Whitworth
High Date of submitting these answers: August 2005 |
| University
you are at, why you chose this university,
and give one interesting fact about your university: |
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| Bretton
Hall, University of Leeds, which
I chose because it was the only course
of its kind in the country. Interesting fact – the Chuckle Brothers trained at Bretton. |
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| Best things about your university city: | Worst things about your university city: |
| Bretton
is in the middle of the Yorkshire
Sculpture Park and surrounded by
300 acres of beautiful parkland – it’s
an amazing place to live! |
You can feel pretty isolated from the traditional “student experience”. |
Social
scene/nightlife in your |
Popular activities at your university/ in your university city?: |
| Wakefield is awesome on a Monday night, everything is catered to students and is very cheap and pretty varied. Leeds is also close at hand if you want something bigger. | At Bretton it’s mainly performance courses so all the drama societies and musical societies tend to do the best! |
| How
much on average per week do a) Halls of Residence,
b) Renting a house, cost in your university town/city? |
What is the accommodation like in your university town/city? |
| The
rent on my house is £54 per week – there
are 3 of us sharing a 4 bed house in the centre
of Wakefield. It’s pretty huge. My halls used to cost me £2695 per year, but they were catered and on campus. |
Pretty good – most local landlords work under Unipol who safeguards the standards of housing. There are a lot of big Victorian terraced houses. |
| How much on average do you spend on food shopping per week? | |
| I lived in catered halls so I had an allowance of £900 for a year to use in the refectory. Outside of that I probably spent less than £5 per week. | |
| What is the course you are studying? - Was it your original choice when applying for university? | |
| Arts Education, specialising in Drama & Performance BA. It was my first choice. | |
| How many years does your course last? | |
| 3 years. | |
| What you enjoy most about your course/ what impresses you about it?: | |
| My course was the study of performance and drama as more than just entertainment. The course included a lot of practical work-based learning which has meant that now I have graduated I have worked with children of varying ages, the elderly, adults and children with learning difficulties, in hospitals, hospices, schools, museums and corporations. It has given me a lot of scope for my future career. | |
| What you enjoy least about your course, and what could be improved : | |
| It required a lot of self-discipline especially on work-based projects. When there is no teacher to tell you off for not putting the effort in - you have to really love what you’re doing. | |
| How
do you rate the teaching standards on your
course, and do your tutors/lecturers/the university give you the right support for your studies?: |
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| Amazing. Bretton is a small place, my class was small and my tutors were all extremely qualified and experienced. We were all supported in everything we did. | |
| What A Level Grades/UCAS points did you have to achieve to be accepted onto your course? | Why did you choose the particular course you are studying? |
| B,B,C | I wanted to use my passion for stage performance to benefit others. The course was very specifically NOT a performance course. The course promised to increase my skills within the realms of performance as a tool to work with people, not to be an actress. |
| Best thing about being at university: | Worst thing about being at university: |
| The friends you make. | The stigma and expectation that you are a drunken idiot. |
| What do you plan to do after you graduate? | |
| I am an elected Sabbatical Officer on Leeds University Union; it’s a 12 month position. | |
| If you were to recommend going to university, what would you say? | |
| Go. Don’t go with an agenda. Make friends with everyone you meet and don’t worry if people don’t like you. Take every opportunity you are given especially to try something new. Don’t worry about money. | |
| Do you get homesick? If so, how do you deal with it? | |
| I didn’t really. My parents always made a massive effort to be a part of my life. | |
| Do you think you made the right choice? Or looking back, would you have gone to a different university/started a different course? | |
| I made the right choice. Definitely. | |
| What have you achieved whilst being at university? | |
| So much. I got my degree for one, met loads of amazing people, and was given the opportunity to do some pretty scary things. I got involved in student activism and politics which led me to various conferences and demonstrations around the UK, which led me to travel to Israel and Palestine to explore the many aspects of the conflict. My uni life was amazing. | |