Access to HE 2012-2013

Hi Chelle,

yes, I had my acceptance letter
I also alreday know my timetable, but only because it turned out that I couldnt do the subject choice as I wanted it, so we discussed possible choices over the phone.

I am so excited about starting now and I'm glad I have found someone who will be there as well and might even be in one subject with

I'm hopefully going to be doing Access to Nursing there too!! Look after me please!! Lol xx

So I went for my interview today and was told I am an ideal candidate blah blah blah, and was given a conditional offer. Conditional meaning that I have to provide evidence of my GCSE English result. Trouble is, I haven't seen my certificates since about 2009. I'm not sure whether it was Edexcel or AQA that I did it with (will have to ring school to check), but if it is AQA then I can NOT receive a replacement certificate as they don't cover losses, and my interviewer reckons they will not take anything less than the certificate (so will not accept a Statement of Results) as evidence. I feel like I could cry - what a stupid thing to hold me back!

I had similar problem, but my school wrote me a letter confirming my GCSE results (from 20 years ago) the college accepted that. my interviewer told me something similar to yours, but I later spoke to the Access lead tutor, who said they would accept it.

Thanks guys, casual it is
I didn't get a letter about an interview, it was a phone call out of the blue so I'm not very well prepared I must admit. I wasn't told that I'm needed to bring anything, however I suspect they may want to see evidence of GCSE results which I don't have? I lost the certificates a while ago when moving, I know I can get like a copy from my school but not sure how long that will take

Hello

great to find someone else who will be at Swindon New College

I'm not doing the access to nursing, but we probably still have biology together. My subjects are Biology, Geography and History.

Chelle1990, who posted above is doing the access to nursing at New college in Swindon, so you might share some subjects with her.

Where abouts are you from?

Daniela x

For the past 2 weeks I've been in college doing the pre-access ready for September, been doing practice English tests and should be finished next week.
I'm also off to the taster day on Thursday :-)

Yes, we are both at New College
I will be travelling from Lyneham, which is quite a drive a s well.

Really can't wait to start now

Oh I didn't realise that you were at New College I'll be at North Star! Damn.

Are you guys both from Swindon then? I'll be travelling in everyday from Devizes - going to be a long day/week! Lol.

Can't wait to start though. I was at Southampton studying Nursing in 2008 but i had to leave before the end of my first year due to some family things that were occuring at the time! Really looking forward to getting back into it again - its my life - haha how sad must I sound!!

Im looking at starting an access course this year and i have one question; is it better to take the course at the city where my choosen uni is going to be or does this matter at all?
Thank you

[Is anyone studying an online Access to HE course?

I started mine in sept last year in order to start uni this year but had to put it on hold in January due to work commitments..so carrying on again from the end of this month to apply for sept 2013 uni intake.

What is everyone hoping to apply for at uni with their access qualification? I'm hoping to do dental therapy/hygiene as im a qualified dental nurse..but thinking about going for nursing and midwifery too cos i know its very limited for dental!..anyone else applying for any of these?

xxx

I completed an access course and am now going to train as a hygienist in September. It was the best thing I did...even though very demanding xxx Which Access course are you on Science? or health?

Just thought I'd let you all know how my first induction day went.

Oh dear, it wasn't a great start. The induction started at 9:30, and I arrived at College at 9:15 so I was 15 minutes early.

Myself and others were instructed by the lady at the reception to go to a specific building and wait in a specific room. There was about 9 of us in total waiting for a good half an hour with no sign of any of the staff or other students. Someone from the group headed back to reception, and the lady said she'll look round to see if we were in the correct room.

Another half an hour passed with no sign of anyone, someone else from the group made a phone call and got told we needed to be in the Art and Design building on the other side of College. Moral of the story, we walked into a conference room jam packed with about 90 people squeezed in, and the induction had clearly already started.

Total lack of organization on their part to be honest but the induction leader did say more people turned up than expected.

Everything went more smoothly once we were put in groups, we toured the college than did pre-access study skills in the afternoon. Everyone parted their ways at dinner which felt bizarre and awkward despite being friendly and having somewhat of a laugh.

I got myself a cheese sandwich from the canteen which was awful so I binned it, spent rest of my dinner outside the classroom waiting like a tool.