The "Ask a Durham Student" Thread :)

I have a question. What was Queen's Campus called before 2002 when it took its current name. I think it only take the name then. Was it just "the Stockton campus"?

All the bus compaies insist on calling it "Teessdale University". As well as being just plain wrong (as Stockton isn't even in Teesdale and it isn't its own university) It's just confusing.

According to Wikipedia, it was 'Joint University College on Teesside of the Universities of Durham and Teesside (JUCOT)', then 'University College, Stockton', then 'University of Durham, Stockton Campus', before finally becoming 'Queens Campus, Stockton' in 2002.

I started in 2002 and i think it got its queens campus slightly after i started - maybe by a few years i dunno though.
Has the campus been owned by university of teeside?? Its actually written on a stone thing as you enter the holliday building says something like university of durham stockton campus opened - then the date, the something from the chancellor in the year that it opened! And it was only built in that year.

Bus companies call it teesdale - you wanna be careful there - theres a college called teesdale not so far away. Not stockton reiverside college though another one!
Oh new halls and old halls seems to be a favourite with taxi drivers.

http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/__80256E280053B5B6.nsf/vWeb/2C317F90564FB89480256F2000459C04/$File/son214stkiss5.pdf?Open


Its durham uni on this timetable! And the rest.
Oh and teesdale is the area.

Has Durham really upped its entry requirements for 2009 undergrads?? I got their new prospectus today, finally, and it's changed from AAB to AAA for geography....I'm so upset/frustrated because I know I wont get that, but I've fallen in love with Durham already.
Are these new requirements for definite/do they have any leeway?

Thanks.

A levels have gotten easier, hence higher grade requirements. The chances of them lowering them depends of course who applies, unlikely imo unless you have a special reason for a reduced offer.

The typical offer will account for the majority of offers, and the other will mainly be when someone takes an A-level that has little bearing on their aptitude for their degree subject. For example imagine someone applying for maths who takes Maths, Further Maths and French and applies for maths, the maths department might not care what the french result is. For Geography that is unlikely to be the case no matter what you take, such is the broadness of the subject.

All you can do is try to write a really good personal statment and hope for the best.

It's one of the top geography departments in the country so it's understantable. Let's face it, it's Durham so it's bound to happen. They have one of the best philosophy departments in the country and that had a offer of ABB (not it's AAA/AAB). Politics has been AAA for a good while and it's nothing special.

It's unlikely they wil lower or bargain on an offer unless you ahve serious mitigating circumstances.

So, do you mean the majority of the 2008 offers have gone upto AAA, and hence that why they're asking for higher grades?

Grrr Durham, grr standards. If you were to have er....circumstances that would adversely affect you throughout (and upto, but wasn't menitioned) AS, particularly at the beginning, but didn't want it to be dragged on/out throughout A2, no consideration would be given, right?