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Anglia Region Newsletter Spring 2011

In this Issue

Supporting Information, page 1 Advice and Guidance in Schools/Colleges

Student Finance Update page 2

Finance and the page 2 Student Experience

Aimhigher page 2

University Open Days page 3 and Events in the Anglia Region

HELOA Anglia: pages 3 & 4 Who We Are

Welcome to the HELOA Anglia Newsletter Supporting Information, Advice and

The Higher Education Liaison Officers' Association (HELOA) is the professional Guidance in Schools/Colleges association of staff in higher education who work in the field of education liaison. All HELOA Anglia institutions attend Members provide information, advice and guidance to prospective higher education careers fairs and parents evenings; students, their families and advisers. HELOA was set up in 1990 and currently has and offer a range of workshops and members from over 140 higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK. presentations to support prospective All HEIs in the Anglia region are members of HELOA and are committed to providing students and their advisors in making high quality information and guidance about higher education to schools and colleges informed choices about their future. in the region. All members offer a range of activities for schools and colleges to raise HELOA members provide generic aspirations and to support prospective students in making informed decisions about their information on areas including making future in higher education. HELOA Anglia members work closely with schools to support choices, UCAS and personal statements, teachers in advising their students; and works with other partners including UCAS, Student and student finance. Finance , and Local Authorities. For more information on generic The Anglia group have produced this newsletter to provide an introduction to the Anglia sessions and subject specific events or members, and what we can offer to your students. We hope that you will find it useful, masterclasses, please contact HELOA and would be very pleased to hear from you about any issues that you think the Anglia HEIs directly. newsletter should address in the future.

HELOA Anglia Committee

Chair: Karen Hinton, Campus [email protected]

Secretary: Laura Anderson, University of [email protected] www.heloa.ac.uk Student Finance Update www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance

Student Finance has been in the news considerably over the past few months, with many aspects of the changes in 2012 still to be confirmed. HEIs in the Anglia region will be updating their websites as the detail of the change is confirmed, and prospective students and their advisors are welcome to discuss finance 2012 directly with HELOA members. The key confirmed points are:

• Students applying for 2011 entry will face a maximum tuition fee of £3,375 per year, and will be able to apply for a tuition fee • The income threshold for maintenance • Graduates will begin to repay their loan for this amount. Any changes to grants is expected to decrease, so tuition and maintenance loans upon tuition fees for 2012 will not affect students from households with incomes earning a salary of £21,000 or more. students who started their course in 2011. above £42,000 will have living support The repayment period will extend to provided entirely from the student loan. 30 years, and graduates will repay • Students deferring entry to 2012, or 9% of what they earn above £21,000 applying for 2012 entry, will be affected by • will no longer be required to the planned changes to student finance. provide a bursary for students receiving • Interest will remain linked to inflation, the full maintenance grant. Some with additional interest charged to • From 2012, universities will be able to universities may still offer financial support, higher earners. charge a tuition fee of £6000, increasing with information on their websites. to £9000 per year in exceptional cases. Blair Campbell, Student Finance England

Finance and the Student Experience Repayment Aimhigher Graduates will begin repaying loans from Unfortunately, it has been confirmed April after graduation, and once they earn that Aimhigher funding will end over £21,000. On a salary of £25,000, in July 2011. All Anglia group graduates will repay less than £30 per universities currently work with month. Currently graduates begin Aimhigher, and HELOA recognises repayment on a salary of £15,000, meaning the valuable work that Aimhigher that graduates under the new arrangements colleagues have done over the will have more money in their pocket after years, and the impact that Aimhigher loan repayments have been made. has had for large numbers of Term-time employment students in the Anglia region.

More students are considering part-time Universities charging more than jobs and working during their holidays £6,000 per year for 2012 entry while studying, to support their term-time will be expected to commit to an Student Finance continues to be of living costs. Universities provide guidance access agreement with the Office the most talked-about issues in higher and support in finding part-time jobs, for Fair Access (OFFA), which will education at the moment, and many including vacation opportunities relevant require them to have programmes students are concerned about the to future careers. to widen participation. Regardless impact of the changes on their student Enjoying the Student Experience of the tuition fee, all universities experience. Some of the key messages Students concerned about funding their that students should consider are: currently involved in widening student experience should contact participation activities via Aimhigher Graduate employment universities to discuss financial support are assessing how to continue The current job market is a tough one. and bursaries. However, most students with these activities. Teachers or However research shows that graduates work part-time, and any student struggling advisors are encouraged to contact are more likely to be in a job than those with budgeting will be surrounded by other universities directly to discuss the with lower qualifications. On average, a students having a similar experience. availability of activities and events university graduate earns £100,000 more Universities will provide advice and guidance relevant to their students. during his or her lifetime – net of tax – to students throughout their degree, about than someone who leaves school at 18. all aspects of finance and budgeting. www.heloa.ac.uk University Open Days and Events in the Anglia Region

April July October 13 College 1 University of East Anglia 1 University of East Anglia May 2 University of East Anglia 8 ( and Campuses) 4 Anglia Ruskin University ( Campus) 7 (see website for College 8 University of Hertfordshire 4 Writtle College and department open days) 8 University Campus Suffolk 6 Bedfordshire Higher 8 University of Cambridge (UCS ) Education Convention (see website for College 9 University of Hertfordshire 7 Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge and department open days) and Chelmsford Campuses) 10 Anglia Ruskin University 9 University of Bedfordshire ( Campus) 17 Anglia Ruskin University (Luton and Bedford Campuses) (Peterborough Campus) 15 University of Bedfordshire 9 Writtle College (Luton and Bedford Campuses) June 22 University Campus Suffolk 22 University of ( Campus) 5 Hertfordshire UCAS Convention (UCS Ipswich) 29 University of Bedfordshire 6 Hertfordshire UCAS Convention September (Luton and Bedford Campuses) 8 Writtle College 10 University Campus Suffolk November 11 University of Hertfordshire (UCS Ipswich) 26 University of Bedfordshire 15 Norfolk UCAS Convention 17 (Colchester Campus) (Bedford Campus) 16 Suffolk UCAS Convention 17 University of Bedfordshire 27 University of Bedfordshire 17 Cambridge UCAS Convention (Bedford Campus) Sports (Luton Campus) 18 University of Essex (Colchester Campus) 24 University of Essex (Southend Campus) 23 Essex UCAS Convention 24 Essex UCAS Convention

HELOA Anglia: Who We Are

Anglia Ruskin University University of Bedfordshire University of Cambridge www.anglia.ac.uk/external-liaison www.beds.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

With campuses at Cambridge, Chelmsford, The University of Bedfordshire is The University of Cambridge is one of Harlow, Peterborough and King’s Lynn, renowned for its vibrant, diverse and the world's top universities, with around over 30,000 students and 1,000 academic cosmopolitan student community – 12,000 undergraduate students. We staff, we are one of the largest universities that includes more than 21,000 students provide a challenging, flexible and in the region and are gaining prominence and 1,200 members of staff from over individual learning experience in a wide both nationally and internationally. 100 countries. A new institution with a range of subjects within the arts, social We take great satisfaction in training long history of providing high quality sciences, medicine and sciences. many of the region’s nurses, teachers, education – we pride ourselves on Cambridge is a ‘collegiate’ university, midwives and social workers. We are teaching relevant and practical courses. which means that as well as being part of the largest provider of undergraduate To date, £60m has been invested, an academic department students are part courses in subjects allied to medicine, providing our students with an extensive of a College community. Together the architecture, building and planning, and range of state-of-the-art facilities departments and Colleges provide mass communication and documentation. including, new £20m en-suite student students with superb facilities, contact We are also the second largest provider halls of residence, a £6m Campus with the very best minds, and lots of of undergraduate courses in business Centre with a £4.5m 280-seat theatre, personal tuition and support. and administrative studies. and an £8m Physical Education and Sport Upon graduation, three out of four of Science Centre set to train athletes for the our full-time students enter employment 2012 Olympics at the Bedford campus. in the region. www.heloa.ac.uk HELOA Anglia: Who We Are

University of East Anglia University of Essex www.uea.ac.uk www.essex.ac.uk [email protected] [email protected]

The University of East Anglia is a highly The University of Essex, established in acclaimed institution with an international 1965, is one of the UK’s leading academic reputation, based in the beautiful city of institutions, ranked in the top ten for Norwich. There are nearly 200 courses to research excellence following the last choose from across four faculties: Science, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, Humanities, Social Sciences and Health. December 2008). We offer a wide range of Accolades include winning the 2009 "What undergraduate courses and postgraduate acting students studying in . Uni" Student Choice Award and being voted study opportunities that span our four Our first-class facilities include award- 3rd amongst mainstream English universities faculties: Social Sciences, Science and winning accommodation, a library with in the . Students Engineering, Humanities and Comparative over one million books, a business hub, can enjoy facilities including the Sainsbury Studies, and Law and Management. restaurants and bars, an art gallery and Centre for Visual Arts and the £17.5 million Around 9,000 students study at our three theatres. We also have an environmental Sportspark. The student union has also been campuses across the region. Our original commitment to a healthy and sustainable voted the best music venue in the country campus is based in Colchester, with a future and are one of the UK’s most by the Virgin Alternative Guide. new campus in Southend-on-Sea and internationally diverse campus universities.

University of Hertfordshire University Campus Suffolk (UCS) Writtle College www.herts.ac.uk www.ucs.ac.uk www.writtle.ac.uk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

The University of Hertfordshire is UCS is one of the newest higher Writtle College campus is a unique place. one of the UK’s leading business-facing education institutions in the UK and is The campus was first established in universities. We are an ambitious and a modern approach to learning with 1893 and it is set in its own 220 hectare entrepreneurial university with an centres across Suffolk complementing estate with which includes landscaped international vision, putting students the campus development in Ipswich. gardens, working animal units, construction at the heart of what we do. We are UCS is academically strong, offering areas, workshops and retail, business focused on developing new and modern flexible modes of learning and and leisure operations. There is a lively creative approaches to learning, innovative courses to meet both student community atmosphere on campus, with teaching and research with a and employer needs. Its degrees are students from over 50 different countries. commitment to adding value to jointly validated by the Universities of The majority of our students spend a large employers, enterprise and regional, East Anglia and Essex and employability proportion of their course time using the national and international economies. is at the core of all its courses. UCS offers diversity of the natural and built degrees across Arts, Business, Health, environments on campus for case study We have over 24,000 students and offer Humanities, Social Sciences and Science. work, practical learning and hands-on work a wide range of courses, from Motorsport experience and business training. Technology to Paramedic Science. We The Waterfront Building in Ipswich houses pride ourselves on the facilities we offer the UCS Union café, Theta, which is also We welcome the opportunity for students our students including highspec living home to the Waterfront Gallery, an innovative and schools to visit the College, speak accommodation, state-of-the-art learning and exciting exhibition space for UCS. The with our further and higher education staff resource centres open 24/7, £15 million James Hehir Building is a new £21million and meet with current students and get worth of sports and fitness facilities and building which is home to specialist involved with practical sessions which the recently opened Forum offering teaching facilities including clinical skills cover a wide range of subject areas students the opportunity to socialise laboratories, physiology and sports science including Equine and Animal Science, and relax on campus. laboratories, and an iLab. The ground floor Sport, Sustainable Environments, Design, is home to the new UCS Union bar, Kai. Horticulture and Business. www.heloa.ac.uk