Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough University

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
University

• Careers Centre
• Chaplaincy
• Confide Harassment Support and Advice Network
• Counselling Service
• Disabilities and Additional Needs Service
  (including Mental Health Support)
• Imago Services - Student Accommodation Centre
• International Student Centre/Centre for
  Additional Learning Support
• Loughborough Students Advice
• Medical Centre
• Wardens/Sub-wardens Service

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
University Careers Centre

• Comprehensive Website
• Help with CVs
• Job vacancies/Vacation work
• Information
• Advice and guidance
• Module choice / Course change

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityChaplaincy

• Chaplaincy Centre confidential help, spiritual
  direction, prayer, meditation and reflection and
  links to the Student Faith Groups
• Christian Prayer and Worship
• Regular Church of England/Anglican, Roman
  Catholic and Ecumenical services
• Muslim Prayer
• Daily prayers in the James France Building and
  on Fridays in Victory Hall
• Other World Faiths
• Contact the Chaplaincy

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityConfide
Telephone [phone]  Email
confide_at_lboro.ac.uk www.lboro.ac.uk/confide
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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityCounselling Service

• Talk through any worries, e.g. anxiety,
  depression, family, suicidal feelings,
  relationships, homesickness, cultural changes
• Confidential private talk with a professional
  counsellor
• We also offer group counselling, drop-in service
  and workshops e.g. Confidence Building, Dont
  Panic, Life Coaching, Anxiety Management,
  How to stop putting things off

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityDisabilities and Additional Needs
Service (DANS)

• Advice and support to all students with
  disabilities and/or additional needs
• Assessment for dyslexia
• Help in applying for Disabled Students Allowance
• Practical support specific to students with
  mental health difficulties

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityInternational Student Centre

• English language and study skills support for
  international students through classes and
  individual tutorials
• International Student Advisers providing advice
  on a wide range of issues including immigration
  advice, police registration and settling in to
  the UK

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityCentre for Additional Learning Support

• Screening for dyslexia
• Individual support for students with dyslexia,
  dyspraxia and other Specific Learning
  Difficulties
• Workshops to provide support and develop skills,
  eg memory techniques, revision skills, exam
  techniques, careers planning

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityLoughborough Students Advice

• Advice on
• Financial/Money issues
• Housing issues (landlord and tenant
• rights, contract checking etc)
• International students issues
• Academic and disciplinary matters
• Legal issues (criminal and civil)

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityMedical Centre

• GP Surgery
• GP and Nurse Appointments
• Variety of clinics to meet student needs, e.g.
  travel clinic
• Have you returned your registration form?

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
Universityimago Services Student Accommodation
Centre

• Meeting your needs for Accommodation on and off
  campus
• Halls of Residence
• Private rented accommodation in town
• http//accommodation.lboro.ac.uk/
• http//campuslife.lboro.ac.uk/

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Student Guidance and Welfare at Loughborough
UniversityWardens/Sub-wardens Service

• Pastoral support and welfare
• First point of contact for University queries
• Live amongst students in halls