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Your Guide to Edinburgh Napier Saturday 8 September 2012 Saturday 29 September 2012 10Am – 1Pm & 1Pm – 4Pm 10Am – 1Pm Craiglockhart Campus Craiglockhart Campus Please note that all content was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change. Please check online to confirm the most up-to-date information. This publication is also available online and in alternative formats, such as audio, large print or Braille – please call: 08452 60 60 40, visit: www.napier.ac.uk/welcome or email: [email protected] Produced by IDEA, June 2012. Job ref: 1777 Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish Charity. Reg. No. SCO18373 Your Guide to Edinburgh Napier Saturday 8 September 2012 Saturday 29 September 2012 10am – 1pm & 1pm – 4pm 10am – 1pm Craiglockhart Campus Craiglockhart Campus Come along to one of our Welcome events this year! These events provide us with an opportunity to introduce you to Edinburgh Napier University so you can find out about all the support we offer new students. Includes welcome talks, stalls, workshops and much more... To find out more please visit: www.napier.ac.uk/welcome The same programme of events will run twice on Saturday 8 September 2012 and once on Saturday 29 September 2012. Friends and family are welcome to attend. Contents Greetings from Edinburgh 1 Welcome and induction 1 Your new home 1 Some facts and figures about Edinburgh Napier 3 Visa and immigration advice 5 Advice and assistance on UK immigration 7 Arriving in Edinburgh 9 Exploring the UK 13 Our accommodation 15 Route planner 18 Other accommodation in Edinburgh 19 Accommodation costs 21 Student finance 23 When you arrive 31 Matriculation 31 Freshers’ Week and Napier Students’ Association 33 Studying at Edinburgh Napier 35 Online resources 39 Computing resources 43 Welcome to Edinburgh – a student’s view 45 Would you like to improve your English? 57 Studying in the UK for the first time? 59 Study skills 61 Student mentoring 63 Confident Futures 65 Careers 67 Disabilities and specific learning difficulties 69 Advice and guidance 71 Contact us 77 Social networking 79 Greetings from Edinburgh! Congratulations on your offer to come (including the world’s largest arts and study with us at Edinburgh Napier festival), Edinburgh offers something University in Scotland’s beautiful and for everyone. Clean, compact and historic capital city. safe, Edinburgh tops the list of European cities where people would We are delighted that you have chosen most like to live. It has a diverse, to pursue your studies with us and we multicultural population and its four want to make your time here as happy universities (and around 100,000 and rewarding as possible. students) make Edinburgh a respected place of learning and one of the most This guide will help you to understand student-friendly cities in the UK. what you need to do before you arrive and what to expect during your first Stay for the summer and experience few weeks. It also contains useful the largest arts festival in the world information on a whole range of as Edinburgh becomes home to services on offer from the University, thousands of tourists, performers designed to help you find your way and the internationally renowned and settle in to student life. International Arts festival and Fringe. Your new home has something for We hope you are looking forward everyone and is small enough that to studying with us; we’re certainly you can see the sights, shop till you looking forward to welcoming you drop and experience the nightlife all to Edinburgh Napier University. without catching a bus. You’ll soon see it for yourself; don’t forget Welcome and induction to bring your camera! Edinburgh Napier University is a lively If you’d like to find out more and contemporary university that before you arrive, check out: prides itself on putting your needs at the heart of everything it does. The List: www.list.co.uk The following information will, we Time Out: www.timeout.com/edinburgh hope, answer many of the questions you might want to ask as you make The Oracle: www.theoracle.co.uk the transition to Edinburgh Napier. Information about Edinburgh from Visit Scotland: www.edinburgh.org Your new home Edinburgh Guide: www.edinburghguide.com If you are new to Edinburgh, you’re in for a treat! Scotland’s inspiring The Official Gateway to Scotland: capital is an exciting place to live www.scotland.org and study. With streets steeped in Edinburgh Inspiring Capital: history and a thriving cultural scene www.edinburgh-inspiringcapital.com 1 2 Some facts and figures Edinburgh Napier University is Our Craiglockhart Campus also a contemporary institution with has a historically significant past. excellent resources. The Destinations Craiglockhart originally opened of Leavers from Higher Education as a Hydropathic Institute (a facility report 2010 ranked us one of that used water to treat a range of Scotland’s top universities for diseases) in 1880 but was requisitioned graduate employability, providing by the military during the First World you with a solid foundation from War for use as a hospital for the which to launch your career. We treatment of shell-shocked officers. produce confident graduates with high employability by offering It was here in 1917, that the poets industry-relevant courses, flexible Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried learning and an emphasis on Sassoon (1886-1967) met. Within the providing the support you need, walls of Craiglockhart, some of Owen’s right when you need it. and Sassoon’s greatest war poetry was written and their resulting friendship A bit of history was to have a significant and lasting In just four decades, Edinburgh Napier effect on literature, influencing our University has evolved from a technical view of the war. On the medical front, college to a major modern Scottish significant advances were made in the university. Today, Edinburgh Napier treatment of neurasthenia (shell shock) is one of the largest higher education and the development of psychiatry. institutions in Scotland with nearly 18,000 students studying professional Today, the building houses the courses at all levels in three faculties: University’s Business School and is home to the War Poets Collection, • Engineering, Computing a permanent exhibition that allows & Creative Industries visitors to view the collections and • Health, Life & Social Sciences gain an insight into the personal and • The Business School social experiences of war through the words, memories, voices and objects The University is named after that the officers, medical staff and John Napier, a sixteenth century relatives left behind. mathematician and philosopher who was born and lived in Merchiston Tower – now part of our Merchiston Campus. 3 Student numbers UG FT 11,200 (62%) Total = 17,793 2010/11 figures. UG PT 3,727 (21%) UG = Undergraduate PG = Postgraduate Taught PG FT FT = Full-time 1,217 (7%) PT = Part-time Total Taught PG PT 17,793 1,422 (8%) UK & EU students 12,696 (71%) Overseas students 5,097 (29%) Research PG Edinburgh 5,757 FT 111 (1%) Hong Kong 2,428 PRC China 1,137 Research PG India 703 PT 106 (1%) 4 Visa and immigration advice Preparing to study in another country Bulgarian and Romanian students is an exciting prospect but if you are a If you are a Bulgarian or Romanian non-EU international student, there are citizen we strongly recommend that a number of processes you must go you apply to the Home Office after through. One of the first things to do you arrive in the UK for a student is ensure that you have a valid passport registration certificate using form with the correct entry clearance BR1. The certificate confirms your (commonly known as a visa) allowing right to live in the UK as a student you to travel to the UK to study. and work here on a part-time basis whilst you are studying. Please note Passport that you cannot start part-time work Please ensure that you have a valid without a certificate. passport. If you need to get a new one or if your current passport needs Non-EU international students to be renewed, do this as soon as Non-EU international students must possible as the process can take apply under Tier 4 of the new Points several months. Based System as set out by the UK Border Agency (UKBA). If you have In some countries, passports are any other status, please contact gradually being renewed or updated Admissions & International Support. so that they meet new international standards. The new passports will What is Tier 4? be machine readable and contain Tier 4 is the points based immigration encoded biometric information. route for non-EEA students, which was introduced at the end of March European Students 2009. All students applying to European Economic Area (EEA) come to the UK will be subject citizens (all EU countries, plus to Tier 4 conditions. Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) have the right to free The requirements for Tier 4 are movement and residence in the UK. still subject to change at short notice. You must read the latest EEA students do not require a visa; UKBA Tier 4 guidance before however, you will need to show your making an application under Tier 4: passport or ID card in order to gain www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/ entry to the UK. studyingintheuk/adult-students/ can-you-apply/ 5 Points required for entry clearance/ Personal funds can be visa renewal under Tier 4 demonstrated through: In order to apply for a Tier 4 visa • Instant access bank statements you must have a total of 40 points. in your name (including your name as a joint account holder); You should obtain your 40 points • A letter confirming a loan by providing with your application: in your name; and • A CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance • Official financial or of Studies) number issued by government sponsorship.
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