Student Support
The Student Support office offers a range of support to make sure the conditions are right for you to reach your full potential at each stage of your academic career. We aim to anticipate and respond to your support needs, providing a warm welcome when you first arrive, and offering advice and guidance on study skills, disability issues, student finance, and health matters.
Study Skills
Students at all levels of experience and ability need to develop their skills as learners. Whether you are a recent school-leaver or a mature student returning to study we are keen to help you to make the most of your course.
The College provides specialist study skills materials for undergraduate and postgraduate students during induction, and also makes these accessible via the student intranet. There are further workshops and short courses available throughout the year according to student need.
Heythrop Scholar
We offer our own programme of tailored study skill sessions which includes one-to-one and small group study support. Some examples of our programme include: undergraduate composition, presentation skills how to get the best out of lectures, referencing and note taking techniques. Help is also given in Year 3 for writing dissertations.
Disability & Dyslexia
Heythrop College is committed to making the adjustments needed to ensure that students with disabilities are fully included in the life of the College. Some students have found that Heythrop’s size helps – it would be hard to slip through the net, and you benefit, again, from the eagerness of all concerned for you to be ble to succeed.
The term disability refers to conditions such as visual or hearing impairment, mobility or dexterity limitations, mental health difficulties, chronic illness or medical conditions such as epilepsy or Asperger’s Syndrome, dyslexia, and any other condition which has a significant effect on your ability to study.
A range of adjustments can be made to accommodate students with disabilities, from producing learning materials in different formats, to providing a note taker in lectures and supplying technological aids such as mini-disc recorders or specialist software. The booklet Guide for applicants and students with disabilities has further details.
If you think you may be dyslexic and would like adjustments to be made, you will need to have a full Diagnostic Assessment. This can be arranged through the Student Development Office. Whatever your needs please let us know about them as soon as possible so that arrangements can be made that would suit you. Please contact the Student Development Manager Dominic McLoughlin.
Student Finance
The Student Development Manager together with the College Finance Office can help you to minimize the risk of running out of money while you are a student.
When you first arrive at College you must set up a bank account in order to organise receipt of your student loan and payment of fees.
For advice on how to set up a UK bank account as an International student please contact us for further information, or visit the website of the Council for International Education.
We are also able to offer advice on matters such as money management, sources of funding and help with funding application forms.
Counselling
We hope that you will find your time at University to be a rewarding and exciting experience. However it is only natural that being a student can also lead to uncertainties as you are presented with challenges and stresses that you haven’t come across before.
The Student Development Office can also help with individual problems
which are not directly to do with your learning, but can get in the way of your academic progress. For example: The Student Development Manager, Dominic McLoughlin, is available to see you for an initial discussion to explore any difficulties. There is also a College Counsellor on site two afternoons a week. Referrals can be made to a local GP or to the Gower Street Practice where Heythrop students are eligible for psychological help.
Sports
All Heythrop College students are members of the University of London Union (ULU), which at the time of writing had no less than 26 sports clubs, offering an unparalleled range of opportunities. All the more exotic sports will welcome novices: this is a good chance to meet students from other colleges and learn a new, possibly expensive sport like rowing more cheaply than you will ever be able to do again! Contact ULU on 020 7664 2000 or email general@ulu.lon.ac.uk .
Heythrop Student Union is keen to set up sports clubs within the College according to student interests. All students are encouraged to contact HSU to find out what is on offer, and to put forward your own suggestions.
Health
It is essential that you register with a doctor when you start at university. All Heythrop students can use the Gower Street Practice in WC1 near to the University of London Union.
You can register as an NHS patient with them to receive the full range of services if you live in one of the following postal districts: EC1; N1, N4,N5, N6, N7, N16, N19; NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6, NW8; SW1, SW3, SW5, SW6, SW7, SW10; W1, W2, W8, W9, W10, W11, W14; WC1, WC2.
Registration forms can be obtained from the College Registry, or from the Student Support Coordinator. If you live outside these areas you can still use the Gower Street Practice for routine appointments for minor ailments and to access counselling, but you are also advised to register with a practice near where you live.
Peer Mentoring
As a first year student you will be matched with a mentor from the College’s Peer Mentoring Programme. The mentor is someone who is trained to help you to find your way around the College and to make you feel at home more quickly.
Contact us
Dominic McLoughlin
Student Development Manager
d.mcloughlin@heythrop.ac.uk
020 7795 4145
