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Student Guide

This document is a student guide for Birkbeck University's evening program. It provides an overview of orientation, getting started, study support, campus facilities, health and wellbeing, career development, student life, and term dates. The guide aims to help new students settle in and take advantage of the various academic and student services available to support their studies.

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Student Guide

This document is a student guide for Birkbeck University's evening program. It provides an overview of orientation, getting started, study support, campus facilities, health and wellbeing, career development, student life, and term dates. The guide aims to help new students settle in and take advantage of the various academic and student services available to support their studies.

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LONDON’S

EVENING
UNIVERSITY

Your
Student
Guide
2016–2017 For more information visit
bbk.ac.uk/new-student

Orientation 2016
WELCOME TO BIRKBECK 2

Welcome
to Birkbeck

We are delighted you The combination of


have chosen to study dedicated, experienced
with us. students and committed,
influential academics,
Our unique evening study
makes studying at Birkbeck
means ambitious students
an intense, intellectually
of all ages, professions,
challenging and
backgrounds and cultures
enjoyable experience.
can study without putting
their careers or lives This is your guide to the
on hold. It also allows our services and support
academics to combine their available during your
ground-breaking research studies at Birkbeck.
with teaching.
3 GETTING STARTED

Getting started

To help you settle in at the beginning of


your first term, here is your checklist:

Complete enrolment: View your timetable: Login


Go to your My Birkbeck to your My Birkbeck Profile to
Profile online and complete access your class timetable.
enrolment within the first 28
Explore the campus:
days of term.
Familiarise yourself with
Pay your fees: Set up a key locations, such as the
payment plan via your My Student Advice Centre.
Birkbeck Profile.
Attend a study
Create an identity card: support workshop:
Upload a photo and update Online and face-to-face
your details via your academic skills support is
My Birkbeck Profile. available for all students.
Set up your email: Create Set up wifi: Students have
a student email account via access to wifi on campus
your My Birkbeck Profile. through eduroam.
GETTING STARTED 4

Join a Students’ Union Keep updated about news


club or society: Meet and events: Follow Birkbeck
like-minded people and on social media and read the
enhance your student monthly Birkbeck Bulletin
social life. e-newsletter.

Watch our student videos: Find out more:


Get top tips from current bbk.ac.uk/new-students
students on our YouTube
channel.
5 STUDY SUPPORT

Study support
STUDY SUPPORT 6

The academic skills you will need to develop as a student


include essay writing, referencing, academic reading and
research.
You will be expected to identity which of these skills you need
to develop. We can help.

Moodle Free workshops


Online portal Moodle contains We run a range of free
information about the help academic workshops, including
available to improve your academic writing, academic
learning skills: English, computing and IT skills,
moodle.bbk.ac.uk reading and note making, and
presentation skills:
Interactive tutorials bbk.ac.uk/workshops
There is a range of Get Ahead:
Stay Ahead interactive tutorials Learning Development Tutors
designed to help improve your There are a number of Learning
study skills: bbk.ac.uk/ahead Development Tutors who run
workshops and may be available
for one-to-one help:
moodle.bbk.ac.uk
7 CAMPUS FACILITIES

Campus
facilities
Student Advice Centre
Based in the main building on Torrington Square,
students can use the self-service terminals to access
information or speak to the support team with
general enquiries.
The team can also refer you for more in-depth
professional support.
During term time, the Centre is open
Monday–Thursday 11am–7pm; Friday 11am–5pm;
and Saturday 12pm–5pm.

IT Services
Birkbeck offers a range of modern IT facilities,
services and training to all students, including
technical support and assistive technologies to help
with specific disabilities.
Face-to-face support is available Monday–Friday at the
IT Helpdesk, located in the main building in Torrington
Square, and by email and telephone: bbk.ac.uk/its
CAMPUS FACILITIES 8

Library
Your student ID card will allow you to borrow books and
access the range of services and facilities, including
subject librarians designated to your academic
department, online journals, e-books and databases.
The Library is located in the main building on Torrington
Square, and is open 7 days a week and late into the
evening during term-time: bbk.ac.uk/lib

Find out more:


bbk.ac.uk/new-students
9 HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Health and
wellbeing
Counselling Service
We offer all students the opportunity to talk in confidence about
any personal issues that may be affecting their studies or overall
experience at Birkbeck. This includes one-off consultations,
individual brief focused counselling, referral to specialist services,
psycho-educational workshops, and self-help resources:
bbk.ac.uk/counselling

Mental Health Service


This service is available to students with a formally diagnosed
condition, or any other form of mental health difficulty, such as
anxiety or depression. We also offer mentoring support to students
with long-term mental health problems and conditions:
bbk.ac.uk/mentalhealth
HEALTH AND WELLBEING 10

Disability and Dyslexia Service


We provide advice and support on travel and parking, physical
access, the Disabled Students’ Allowance, specialist equipment,
personal support, and examination arrangements. Staff can help
you to complete a Study Support Plan and will confirm your support
requirements with your department. Enquire at the Wellbeing
Centre, in the main building on Torrington Square,
where referral to specialist staff can be determined:
bbk.ac.uk/disability
11 CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Career
development
Careers and Employability Birkbeck Talent
Service Birkbeck Talent is an in-house
The service provides careers, professional recruitment service
recruitment and employability solely aimed at helping Birkbeck
information and advice, as students find work while you
well as support to build your study and after graduation.
professional networks and
The service works with some of
explore your interests with other
London’s top employers to offer
students and colleagues.
innovative paid internships,
A dedicated support space is prestigious job vacancies and
located in the main building exciting graduate opportunities:
on Torrington Square, bbk.ac.uk/talent
and is supplemented by a
comprehensive online service:
bbk.ac.uk/careers
11 HEALTH AND WELLBEING
13 STUDENT LIFE

Student life
STUDENT LIFE 14

Birkbeck Students’ Union between Birkbeck and the


Run by students, for students, University of East London (UEL),
BBKSU is led by part-time all Birkbeck students can use
sabbatical officers who are the study facilities, access the
elected in cross-campus advice and guidance services,
elections each year. BBKSU and use the library at Stratford:
seeks to provide opportunities, bbk.ac.uk/stratford
guidance and events to enhance
your student experience while Alumni community
you study at Birkbeck: Upon graduation, you will
bbk.ac.uk/su automatically become a
member of an active network of
Nursery over 50,000 alumni worldwide
The nursery aims to provide a and will be able to take
pleasurable experience for your advantage of a number of
child, so that students can feel special benefits and services.
confident about studying. The bbk.ac.uk/alumni
nursery has a large playroom
and a secure garden, and offers Your voice
up to 20 places for children At certain stages during your
aged 2 to 6 years. The fee is student journey, you will be
£15 per child, per evening: asked to participate in research
bbk.ac.uk/nursery on the student experience at
Birkbeck in order to help us
Studying at Stratford offer the best services:
Some students will have all bbk.ac.uk/survey/feedback
or part of their course taught
at University Square Stratford
(USS). A unique partnership
Term dates

Autumn term dates Summer term dates


Monday 3 October 2016 to Monday 24 April 2017 to
Friday 16 December 2016. Friday 7 July 2017.

Christmas closing May Day Bank Holiday


Friday 23 December 2016 College will be closed on
to Monday 2 January 2017. Monday 1 May 2017, and
services will resume from 9am
College will close at 6pm on
Tuesday 2 May 2017.
Thursday 22 December, and
services will resume from 9am Spring Bank Holiday
on 3 January. College will be closed on
Monday 29 May 2017,
Spring term dates
and services will resume from
Monday 9 January 2017 to
9am Tuesday 30 May 2017.
Friday 24 March 2017.
Summer Bank Holiday
Easter closing
College will be closed on
Thursday 13 April 2017 to
Monday 28 August 2017,
Tuesday 18 April 2017.
and services will resume from
College will close at 6pm on 9am Tuesday 29 August 2017.
Wednesday 12 April, and
services will resume from 9am
on Wednesday 19 April.

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