We offer a wide range of courses and workshops for every skill that you could need to succeed at university; from writing the perfect essay, to presenting or mastering those digital skills.
Here you can explore the live courses and workshops the Centre for Academic Success has to offer over the next couple of weeks. This page will constantly be updating with new sessions listed throughout the term.
Starting university is an exciting experience, but can also be challenging. This workshop explains how to succeed as an undergraduate. It introduces the varied teaching, learning and assignment types you will encounter, and shows how to engage with them to maximise your academic success.
Singleton Campus
Monday 30th September 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
study skills
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Do your presentations engage your audience? Come along to our hands-on slide design workshop and discover top tips to make the most of Microsoft PowerPoint. Create better looking presentations and avoid the basic errors that cause your audience to switch off.
Online by Zoom
Monday 30th September 2024
10:00 - 12:00 BST
digital skills, PowerPoint, slide design
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This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Singleton Campus
Monday 30th September 2024 (Session 1 of 10)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
writing, grammar
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Postgraduate study is a great opportunity to learn new skills and gain in-depth subject knowledge, but it can be a daunting step-up from an undergraduate degree. This workshop explains how to make the transition to successful postgraduate work.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 1st October 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
new skills, in-depth knowledge, postgraduate research
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Postgraduate study is a great opportunity to learn new skills and gain in-depth subject knowledge, but it can be a daunting step-up from an undergraduate degree. This workshop explains how to make the transition to successful postgraduate work.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 1st October 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
new skills, in-depth knowledge, postgraduate research
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The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 1st October 2024 (Session 1 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
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This workshop explores matrices and their order, addition and subtraction of matrices, multiplication of a matrix with a scalar, identity and zero matrix, laws for the basic operations on matrices, and the transpose of a matrix.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 1st October 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 1st October 2024 (Session 1 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
Sign up to this 8 week course
Starting university is an exciting experience, but can also be challenging. This workshop explains how to succeed as an undergraduate. It introduces the varied teaching, learning and assignment types you will encounter, and shows how to engage with them to maximise your academic success.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 1st October 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
study skills
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This workshop provides a basic introduction to statistical analysis of quantitative data, introducing data analysis and hypothesis testing: We will talk about the concept of Hypothesis testing, and the reason why this is an essential tool for performing our analyses.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 1st October 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
This workshop is a beginners guide to writing documents in LaTeX using Overleaf. No prior knowledge is needed for this workshop or any other computing language, it will cover the basics of LaTeX including document structure, typesetting text, tables, figures, equations and Inserting references.
Online by Zoom
Tuesday 1st October 2024
16:00 - 17:00 BST
This academic integrity workshop explains how to avoid plagiarism, prevent collusion and steer clear of commissioning and exam regulation breaches. It will equip you with the tools and knowledge to excel honestly in your academic writing.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
academic integrity, academic misconduct
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This workshop explores matrices and their order, addition and subtraction of matrices, multiplication of a matrix with a scalar, identity and zero matrix, laws for the basic operations on matrices, and the transpose of a matrix.
Singleton Campus
Tuesday 2nd October 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
This is a course for students whose first language is not English. It will improve your basic grammar before you write your assignments. This course covers key areas of English grammar such as the use of active/passive voice and basic sentence structures to improve written accuracy.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024 (Session 1 of 10)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
writing, grammar
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This workshop provides a basic introduction to statistical analysis of quantitative data, introducing data analysis and hypothesis testing: We will talk about the concept of Hypothesis testing, and the reason why this is an essential tool for performing our analyses.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Bay Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024 (Session 1 of 10)
14:00 - 15:00 BST
writing, grammar
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Ever lose a file or struggle with version control? This workshop explains how to set up your student OneDrive for efficient file management, so you can access, organise and amend your files from any device.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
14:00 - 15:00 BST
digital skills, OneDrive, file management
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Discover the science behind how our brains learn, and how to apply simple techniques to help maximise your study potential in coursework and exams.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
14:00 - 16:00 BST
study skills, revision
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Learn the key elements of a professional email. This workshop also covers how to prioritise the emails you receive, manage events in your calendar, create a to-do list and share files in different ways.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
digital skills, Outlook, emails, calendar, to-do lists
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Talk Club is somewhere for international students to meet and chat with fellow students in a semi-structured and supportive environment. This is a chance to improve your communication skills and build your confidence. Come along and join us!
Bay Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024 (Session 1 of 10)
15:00 - 16:00 BST
oral communication, speaking with confidence
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Using given datasets, you will be asked to formulate a hypothesis, pick statistical tests and interpret results. We will be working in the programme R and students are encouraged to follow along. The statistical analysis will include some common analyses such as t-test, chi-squared and correlation analysis.
Singleton Campus
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
15:00 - 16:00 BST
Critical thinking is a key skill at university. But why is it so valued, and how do we practise and present it? In this practical workshop we will identify and analyse the crucial elements of critical thinking in order to improve your written arguments.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
critical thinking, arguments, evaluation
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Critical thinking is a key skill at university. But why is it so valued, and how do we practise and present it? In this practical workshop we will identify and analyse the crucial elements of critical thinking in order to improve your written arguments.
Bay Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024
10:00 - 11:00 BST
critical thinking, arguments, evaluation
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This academic integrity workshop explains how to avoid plagiarism, prevent collusion and steer clear of commissioning and exam regulation breaches. It will equip you with the tools and knowledge to excel honestly in your academic writing.
Bay Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024
11:00 - 12:00 BST
academic integrity, academic misconduct
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Mathematical expressions are numbers, operators and symbols grouped to 'express' or 'show' a value. Once you understand manipulating expressions principles, you can factorise and simplify expressions. This workshop explores collecting like terms, expanding brackets, factorizing quadratic expressions and dealing with algebraic fractions.
Bay Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024
12:00 - 13:00 BST
This course will introduce you to different strategies to improve your vocabulary and reading comprehension. You will learn ways to improve your reading in English, using academic and news text sources.
Bay Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024 (Session 1 of 5)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
study skills, english language support, academic reading
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This course will introduce you to different strategies to improve your vocabulary and reading comprehension. You will learn ways to improve your reading in English, using academic and news text sources.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024 (Session 1 of 5)
12:00 - 13:00 BST
study skills, english language support, academic reading
Sign up to this 5 week course
A knowledge of indices is essential for an understanding of most algebraic processes. In this workshop, we will learn about powers and rules for manipulating them. Furthermore, we will explore logarithms and exponentials.
Bay Campus
Thursday 3rd October 2024
13:00 - 14:00 BST
