Hi Ann
At London College of Communication at University of the Arts London, we have a Study Support Unit
which reports to the Teaching and Learning co-ordinator. This unit covers everything from general
writing development work to specialist services for students with disabilities including mental
health difficulties and ESOL support for home and EU students. We don't support International
students normally (unless they have English as thier first language) since there is a separate funded
service for EFL support for International students.
All our staff are on academic contracts and experienced teachers usually with an additional
specialist qualification in either ESOL or dyslexia. Additionally we have a specialist in disability
with particular expertise in menatl health difficulties. This is proving invaluable at the moment.
We mainly offer 1:1 support at all levels including postgraduate. We are a specialist art and design
university and so quite often have postgrads who are still not at ease with academic writing. We
also do small group work where appropriate and a lot of work with staff. Our approach is
essentially within an academic literacies paradigm so we work to change the college as well as the
student!
Hope this is the kind of information you want for the network. I am the contact person.
Best wishes
Margo
Ann Barlow wrote:
> Hi all,
> Just to back up what John has said. I'm taking on board collating
> any new or revised data in the LD picture and would like the raw
> data - no need to tabulate just let me know by e-mail what you
> would like changed or added .
> If there are any of you who have not yet contributed to the list
> (Manchester being one!) please let me have your details. My trawl
> of University web sites a year or so ago, using a range of intutive
> search terms such as "study skills advice", identified 73 UK HEIs as
> providing some study advice. We only have 25 on the LDHEN
> database. If you're one of the remaining 48 do get in touch. The
> database is accessible from http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/LDHEN/
> and is the Excel file.
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
> Best wishes,
> Ann
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