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Best University College 2008, 2009 and 2010 ‘The Sunday Times’ University Guide Contents Life at Harper Adams Courses Best University College 2008, 2009 and 2010 ‘The Sunday Times’ University Guide Contents Life at Harper Adams Courses 05 University Guides 68 Agriculture 07 Why Choose Harper Adams? 78 Animal-related 10 Get in Step 86 Nursing 11 Student Support Staff 92 Engineering 13 Student Lifestyle 98 Food Studies 20 Get More From Harper 104 Business 23 Living at Harper Adams 110 Rural Estate/Property and 27 Money Matters Land Management Welcome to Harper Adams 28 Student Services 114 Countryside 30 Students with Disabilities 120 Adventure, Leisure and Tourism 31 International Students 124 Extended Foundation University College 33 Opportunities Overseas Degree Programme 34 Out and About 126 Topping Up It is Harper Adam’s mission to provide 39 Facilities 130 Reaseheath College higher education for the delivery 47 Work Placement 146 Askham Bryan College 50 Great Career Opportunities 148 Walford & North Shropshire College of sustainable food chain and rural 52 The Development Trust 152 Postgraduate Study econnomy. We aim to develop 53 The Careers Service 153 Research Degrees intellectual and practical skills to enable 54 Teaching and Learning 58 Flexible Learning Information individuals to realise their full, personal, 60 Visit Us social and vocational potential and 62 Harper For Life - Alumni 154 Applications 63 Academic Staff 159 Contact Us participate in lifelong learning 64 Student Profiles 160 Maps 162 Terms and Conditions 163 Index Visit Us Open Days: 8th May and 17th October, 2010 Higher Education Choices Conference: 5th-6th July, 2010 Open Afternoon: 22nd September, 2010 2011 Applicants’ Open Afternoon: 17th November, 2010 Harper Adams University College, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 8NB General Enquiries: +44 (0)1952 820280 Admissions: +44 (0)1952 815000 www.harper-adams.ac.uk www.harperadams.co.uk 02 Harper Adams University College Full-time “University College of the year” Course 2008, 2009 and 2010 Directory In the prestigious Sunday Times University Guide 2010 2010 -11 2nd overall for student satisfaction 8th in graduate level jobs 9th for graduate employment www.timesonline.co.uk Harper Adams University College is the best university for Agriculture and Forestry in the University rankings 2010 published by The Complete University Guide in association with The Independant: 1. Harper Adams 7.Aberystwyth 2. Nottingham 8. Queen’s Belfast 3. Reading 9. Bournemouth 4. Newcastle 10. West of England, Bristol 5. Glasgow 11. Aberdeen 6. Bangor 12. Royal Agricultural College www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk Student lifestyle atmosphere here buzzes and once excellent links with industry Ask any student or graduate from it grabs you, it will be with you long and the experience and skills Harper Adams and they will tell after you’ve graduated and when developed in the workplace during you go on to be part of our thriving you all about the famous ‘Harper the one-year placement period alumni organisation (see page 62). Spirit’. It’s about making friends, built into all degree courses. We That’s why, in the National working hard and playing hard, and have links with more than 500 knowing you are at a University Student Survey of UK Higher companies, many of whom offer College where you truly matter and Education Institutions, our placements to students they go feel you belong. If you have visited students voted to place us so on to employ. Placement gives or attended the Higher Education highly, in second place. you the opportunity to put what Choices (HEC) conference (see you learn into practice in the real page 60) you will know just what Great for jobs world and gives you an invaluable We’re University College of the year again... we mean. It would be hard to feel We have an outstanding graduate combination of qualifications and lonely here: the Students’ Union employment record, with more experience that marks you out organises lots of events, clubs than 96% of full-time, first degree from the rest when applying for and societies, and the close-knit, students in full-time work or graduate jobs. intimate campus means there is further full-time education within always a friendly face around. In a 6 months of graduating. Amongst For furthur information see nutshell, Harper is no ‘here today, other factors, many graduates www.thestudentsurvey.com. gone tomorrow’ sort of place. The attribute their success to Harper’s " I'm glad I chose to study my course at Harper because I don't believe there is anywhere else where I would be as happy " A reputation for excellence too. There are seven halls of Great facilities – getting With high levels of student satisfaction... You can be sure of receiving residence, including self-catering better all the time a quality education at Harper accommodation. Our compact From the state-of-the-art Adams. In its most recent review, campus means you are never Bamford Library and Aspire outstanding teaching quality in agriculture, food the Quality Assurance Agency more than a ten minute walk from Centre to the new West Midlands expressed ‘broad confidence’ any of the facilities. Regional Food Academy, new and all things land-based, and low levels of (the best possible result) in our Postgraduate and Professional academic programmes and Location, location Development Centre, and graduate unemployment... standards, and particularly Students say Harper Adams’ upcoming Student Services praised our teaching methods rural location offers the best of Centre, the facilities at Harper and curriculum and our extensive both worlds – all the benefits Adams just get better. The it makes a potent case to applicants. network of work placements. of the country but close to the campus is surrounded by the Sunday Times University Guide See the report for yourself at amenities of the surrounding University College Farm, a unique www.qaa.ac.uk. At Harper Adams towns. Shropshire is in the heart resource which gives students University College we always do of the Midlands, on the English- access to livestock, crops, and our best to ensure you receive the Welsh border, and only a short managed countryside areas, and best education possible. We are a drive away from Birmingham. The has been undergoing a multi- Centre for Excellence in Teaching county’s attractions are many million pound development. For and Learning. and varied, which is ideal for a example, we now have operating mix of study and social life. The a new £2 million, leading-edge Invest in your future surrounding countryside provides dairy unit with 40 point internal As with anything worth having opportunities for field trips, rotary milking parlour. in life, there is a cost involved in course-related excursions and higher education, but you will traditional country pursuits, while Our up-to-date science complex never make a better investment in the nearby towns offer a great includes a molecular biology your future. We are committed to nightlife. laboratory, the Engineering Design providing students with as much Centre provides all the latest help and support as we can, and Cutting edge research and technology, and an extended this particularly applies to financial knowledge transfer Companion Animal House has support. We feel so strongly Research activity at Harper boosted our comprehensive about this that we have made it Adams is wide ranging and has a veterinary nursing facilities. We part of our ‘Harper Guarantee’. positive and practical impact on are constantly investing in the We promise to offer scholarships rural industries and communities, campus and developing facilities. to benefit undergraduate students at home and abroad. who are in financial need and we See page 153 for further details. also offer scholarships to support undergraduate students who, in Support their different ways, can enrich Starting university is an the learning community at Harper exhilarating time, full of new Adams. See page 27 for further challenges, friends and details on finance. experiences, but all of us at some time or another need a helping Community spirit hand. From something as small They say good things come as asking directions to worrying in small packages and that is about assignments or something certainly true of Harper Adams. happening away from university, We have around 4,000 students, the friendly Student Services team with about 1,400 studying and are there to help. socialising on campus at any one time. So, unlike most universities, Support and Services are you don’t just get to know the a crucial underpinning of students on your course and who graduate study at Harper you live with, but people from other courses and year groups Adams University College. Dates to remember This guide will help with your planning: Interviews Higher Education Choices November 2010 to May 2011 (HEC) conference 5th – 6th July 2010 We hold regular interview/counselling sessions between A two-day residential taster course at Harper Adams.Take November and May. We will contact you regarding these part in lectures and seminars, talk to students and staff, then just as soon as we have received your UCAS form. party with the Students’ Union. See page 60 for further details. Open Days Making a decision Sat 8th May 2010 & April to June 2011 Sun 17rth October 2010 Now is the time to make a firm choice about the Why not visit Harper Adams at one of our relaxed universities you are applying for. open days – your family and friends are welcome too. See www.ucas.com See page 60 for further details. Alice Lawrence Open Afternoons Exam results Wed 22nd September 2010 (Open Afternoon) BSc (Hons) Agri-food Marketing Wed 17th November 2010 (2011 Applicants’ Open Afternoon) August 2011 See the website www.harper-adams.ac.uk Time to confirm your place with us or, with Business studies for further details if you have not received the results you were hoping for, give us a call to discuss options such as alternative courses or our extended foundation degree programme.
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