Global Leader's Programme -
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/study-at-coventry/student-support/enhance-your-employability/global-leaders-programme/. A problem with the GLP you might face is that my boyfriend received no bursaries or scholarships for Coventry because he is outside of England. This means you are not eligible to sign up for free. However, the administration fee is only £205 which also gives you a lifetime membership to the Global Leaders Club, which can be extremely useful for contacts in the future etc. The language class is then not free and costs £75, however everything else is still free. There are four sections that you will be asked to complete and this includes going to workshops, business talks and trips to loads of places. It's not a certain hour contract type of thing - it takes up as little of your time or as much as you want. You are given the option to participate in at least 6 classes but there is no upper limit to how many of the FREE trips/workshops/talks you can attend! Also they have tens of Summer trips which they promise only cost you 450 (550 if you want to go outside Europe) for about a week to two weeks stay in four star hotels with all the activities paid for (like going to the NASA base) and a lot of your food covered! For example, one trip to China for two weeks costs the university more than 1500 but they cover 2/3rds of that price for you! I personally think the programme is amazing and the guy who takes our workshops (I've got to loads but some include "Presenting Yourself to the World" and "Communication Skills) is just brilliant! You think the workshops and talks will be boring but they are SO engaging and thought-provoking - it helps with your confidence so much. They have a "no paper or pen" rule where they aren't about presentations and slideshows, but about participation and groupwork
The trips are pretty often - they can clash with your lectures though. I have 21 hours a week in Mathematics so it does get annoying when they plan a day trip that would cost me 5 or so lectures. However, if you have a lighter timetable like I'm sure you will have it means you'll get to get on free trips often
With the summer trip you have to choose just one, but the university say that if there are spaces open where people have dropped out or they just need 2 or 3 more people to make up numbers then they will let people apply to more than one!
Unfortunately my boyfriend and I have no experience of working in Coventry. My placement at the university is unpaid experience. I know a lot of my friends who have jobs and they're the usual KFC, McDonalds, Boots kind of jobs! The clubs and pubs around love to employ students to advertise them. For instance, my flatmate Ryan is employed to hand out wristbands to people who then get a discount when they go to the club and for every person who uses Ryan's wristband to get in Ryan gets some money. There are a lot of little jobs here and there you can do so it doesn't seem too hard! You have to remember it's a very small city with 25,000+ students so there'll be competition whatever kind of job you're getting. In your second year, the university can give you the chance to work for them on desk and in offices, but you go through an interview process where they'll only pick the most committed and dedicated!
The add+vantage modules, I'll be honest, I was disappointed with. There are some great modules but it just so happens the ones me and my friends chose seem to be duds. A lot of the modules actually give you certificates/qualifications at the end which is great! There's also the chance to build up your modules, such as taking German Level 1, then Level 2 the next year and so on. It really does boost the CV when you have something like "Psychology in the Workplace" on your CV (I took that) and these modules can often lead onto better things like new useful contacts or developing a new interest.