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Crucial Guide for Undergraduates 2011 All You Need to Know to Settle Into Student Life at Manchester the Crucial Guide for undergraduates 2011 All you need to know to settle into student life at Manchester Have you registered yet? Turn to page 6 to find out how. Welcome to Manchester Congratulations: you’re coming to The University And look out for “If only I’d known…” boxes, Contents of Manchester! Well done on all your hard work containing the sighed wishes of current Manchester Welcome to Manchester 1 – and a warm welcome to what we hope will be students on things they would loved to have known your much-loved home for the duration of your before coming to Uni – so that you will know and can benefit accordingly. Diary dates 2 undergraduate studies with us – and perhaps Crucial Checklist 1: Before you arrive 3 beyond. Distance learners Crucial Checklist 2: Welcome Week 13 With our proud tradition of academic excellence, If you are starting your studies but won’t be outstanding opportunities to boost your career physically located in Manchester, take a look at our Crucial Features: Student life 29 prospects and personal development, and dedicated advice and guidance for distance learners The Less Crucial Checklist: In Year 1 46 one of the world’s most exciting cities on our on The Crucial Guide Live: doorstep, we’re confident that you’ve made www.studentnet.manchester.ac.uk/crucial-guide The small print 48 the right decision on choosing The University Campus map 50 of Manchester – and we look forward to you becoming part of our thriving community. International students Coming to Manchester from outside the EU? What’s so Crucial? Please read this guide in conjunction with the International Students’ Arrival Guide, which This Crucial Guide for new undergraduate students will you’ll also receive from us and which you’ll find help you to: further reference to in this guide. 1. Prepare for coming to University, with tips on what you need to do before you arrive, including our guide to the all-important registration process Start of Year Fair 2. Settle into University life, discovering everything you 20-21 September, 2011 The bearer is a student of need to do when you arrive, with plenty of useful advice University Place Square, Oxford Road The University of Manchester. 3. Discover the Less Crucial bits – aspects of University During Welcome Week, don’t miss the Start of Year Please allow them free passage on the 147 bus you might want to look into once you’re settled, in Year Fair. This crucial event will provide further help, between Sackville Street and Oxford Road from 1 and beyond support and information to help you settle in, and 12 September 2011 to 23 September 2011. get your new life in Manchester off to a flying start. You’ll find handyCrucial Checklists, to help you get Registrar and Secretary organised and keep track of what needs to be done, plus Crucial Features on different aspects of student life. 1 Diary dates The academic year Welcome Week Semester 1 Welcome and Orientation (for 19 September 2011 – international students) Crucial checklist 1: 29 January 2012 15-18 September Break See Arrival Guide p30 for more 16 December 2011 – information Before you arrive 16 January 2012 Start of Year Fair 20-21 September 2011 Semester 2 Apply for University accommodation 4 30 January – 8 June 2012 Marquee outside University Place (map ref 37), Oxford Road site Break Check your vaccines 4 23 March – 16 April 2012 Student Fair Get online with the University 5 20-22 September 2011 Exams Academy 1, Oxford Road site Register and pay your fees 6 (campus map ref 78) Semester 1 Plan your journey to Manchester 10 16–27 January 2012 Sport, Health and Activity Fair 20-22 September 2011 Learn about student arrival in Manchester 12 Semester 2 Students’ Union and Academy 1, 17 May – 6 June 2012 Oxford Road (campus map ref 68 Re-examinations and 78) Welcome Week is a hectic time in every new student’s 20–31 August 2012 calendar – make it easier on yourself by getting as much done as possible before you arrive. That will free you up for more of the fun stuff when you arrive – and might help calm any pre-Uni nerves, since you’ll know you’re as prepared as possible… 2 3 Crucial checklist 1: Apply for University accommodation get online By the time you get this guide, Sign up to University IT* Set up your student *Please note – if you don’t have Find out more… most of you who are planning to IT account access to a computer for these live in University accommodation For full details of our first-year accommodation guarantee for UK/EU Tell us you’re coming tasks, you can wait until you get to will already have applied for your the University and use a computer students: http://bit.ly/mbrGSM If you haven’t already done so, you The next thing to do is complete preferred hall of residence. Well in one of our PC clusters. Be need to let us know that you’re ‘IT Sign Up’. This will allow you to done for being so prompt, and we For all accommodation-related information for international students: warned, though: it gets very busy in coming to Manchester. complete Registration, and will also look forward to welcoming you to Arrival Guide p30 give you access to our extensive Welcome Week! your new home. To discuss any special accommodation requirements: You should have received details of IT facilities, including your own Speak to/email one of our advisors using our contact details (see below). how to confirm your attendance, University email account. If you have yet to apply, don’t delay which is the first step towards any longer – we need to receive For information on privately rented accommodation options: registering and formally becoming a 1. You will receive an email – to your application by Wednesday 31 checklist: www.manchesterstudenthomes.com member of the University. your personal email address – from August in order to guarantee you the University letting you know that Confirm you’re coming a place. For student-run online groups relating to your hall of residence: Full details of this process can be an IT account has been created for to Manchester Search on Facebook: found online: you. You cannot sign up until you You can apply online today: Set up your student IT www.facebook.com www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/ receive this message. www.manchester.ac.uk/ confirmation account accommodation/application 2. You can then get online at: www.manchester.ac.uk/itservices/ Contact us itaccountmanager The Accommodation Office, University Place, Oxford Road checklist: Campus map ref: 37 To set up your account, Apply for University tel +44 (0)161 275 2888 you will need: accommodation by email: [email protected] • Your date of birth 31 August www.manchester.ac.uk/accommodation • Your University of Manchester ID number (listed in all communications that you have received from the University’s Check your vaccines Admissions team) In the last few years, incidences of If you are unsure whether or not You will receive your own unique mumps and measles in teenagers you are already covered, please Find out more… username and password, which and young adults have increased check with your doctor or your local Mumps Advice you can then use to register at the across the UK. To protect our Child Health Records Department http://bit.ly/iBhFjV University (see p6). student community, we therefore before coming to university. If you As with all log-in details, you advise you to get a Meningitis C have any difficulty in getting the should protect your personal data vaccination and a second MMR vaccines, contact the Patient Advice by not sharing these with anyone (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) and Liaison Services – checklist: else. For University regulations vaccination before coming to tel +44 (0)161 219 9451. Check your around computer use, see university, if you have not already Please note that the vaccines are not vaccinations record http://bit.ly/iUetzl done so. recommended if you are pregnant. 4 5 Crucial checklist 1: Registration How to register Ten steps If you’re paying your Becoming a member of the University Go to www.manchester.ac.uk Online registration consists of ten own tuition fees… and follow the link to register. Log steps. Online card payment in to the student portal using your 1 2 3 4 central username and password Steps one to nine require you to You will need your credit/debit (generated during IT Sign Up – see confirm and update information card – and your UK bank account STEP 1: Confirm your STEP 2: Complete IT STEP 3: Register online and STEP 4: Pick up your p5) and select the ‘My Services’ about you, your contact details and details if you wish to pay your fees attendance online Sign-Up (see p5) arrange payment of tuition student card (see p14) tab. your course. in instalments. (see p5) fees (see below) You should be able to complete You should also read the To pay in full, click ‘Pay Now’ or online registration simply by information explaining what the to pay in instalments, click ‘Pay University will do with your personal *Please note that you won’t be able following the instructions as they by Instalments’. If you choose to What is registration? When to register information and your rights in to register with us until you have appear on-screen. pay by instalments, you will pay connection with the Data Protection Registration* is a crucial part You will receive an email from the confirmed your attendance at the one-third of your fees now, and A green ‘completed’ tick will appear Act, as well as the University’s of becoming a student of the University, inviting you to register University and set up your student set up a direct debit to pay two as you finish each section.
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