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Welcome to
Bridgend College
YOUR GUIDE
2018/19
Contact details
It’s important that we have the correct contact details for you so that we can
notify you in the event of an emergency.
Please drop in to Student Services:
Monday - Thursday 8:30am - 5:00pm / Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm to update us if you
move house, change your telephone number or email address.
Main switch board: 01656 302 302
enquiries@bridgend.ac.uk
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Contents
Values
Student Life
Your Voice
8 Core Skills
Welsh Language
Support for you
Wellbeing
Financial Support
Reporting Absence
Facilities
NUS Card
Term Dates
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We want you to feel safe and part of our community at Bridgend College.
Our Student Citizenship Code sets out our commitment to you and what we expect from
you in return.
We expect all students to fulfil our learning values:
Be Ready
Be Respectful
Be Safe
It is important that you take time to read our Citizenship Code; it includes important
guidance on the use of social media and IT and our behaviour expectations.
Values
It’s important that you make the most of every learning opportunity during your time at
Bridgend College so that you can achieve and progress. We expect your attendance to be
at 95% or above.
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Enrichment
Enrichment activities give you an opportunity to learn new skills and gain wider
experiences whilst studying at College. We work with local and national
organisations and charities who can help you to be all that you can be.
Clubs and Societies
Student Life
We encourage and support students to set-up and run their own clubs and societies
to support the interests of others across the College and provide new ways to meet
new people and share common interests.
WorldSkills
As a student at Bridgend College, we will encourage you
to develop and excel in your vocational studies and provide
opportunities for you to compete in regional and national skills
competitions.
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Annual Awards Ceremony Each year we celebrate the success and achievement of our students. High achieving and inspirational individuals are recognised for their commitment and success. Entrepreneurship Our Enterprise Officer can support you in a range of business related activities and can provide guidance with the following: • Starting your own business • Improving enterprise skills • Enterprise initiatives such as fundraising Scholarships Our scholarship programmes are sought after and aim to provide students with exceptional opportunities to excel and further develop their talent and skills. For further information about our scholarship programmes, please contact Student Services. Your Guide @bridgendcollege 7
Cyfleoedd: Opportunities Hub
yfleoedd, meaning ‘opportunities’, provides an innovative and collaborative workspace
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to enable students and employers to connect. We work with students and employers
to enhance careers education, promote work-related opportunities and enable talent
Student Life
pipelines to business.
Cyfleoedd builds upon our wider College mission statement, enabling our students to
‘be all that they can be’ by preparing and supporting them to achieve, progress and gain
meaningful paid career opportunities.
Our Careers team is able to support you with searching for paid and voluntary
opportunities and can provide you with careers advice and guidance.
For more information, visit: bridgend.ac.uk/cyfleoedd
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Student Academic Representatives
StARs are students selected by their peers to represent them
on their course. StARs help make sure the voices of students
are heard and feed back any views and issues regarding the
course and the College in general.
Benefits of becoming a StAR:
• Students can gain new skills through their role such
as communication, problem solving, negotiation and
leadership.
• Recognition – students will be given the opportunity to
receive a certificate of recognition and the role can enhance
their CV.
Your Voice
Ambassadors
Becoming a Bridgend College Ambassador is a fantastic way
of getting involved in College life and giving something back.
You’ll have great opportunities to support College wide events,
including our open evenings, Freshers’ Fayre, awards evening
and fundraising events.
Applications open each September.
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‘Your Voice’ helps us to improve and do things
better.
If you have an idea, a compliment or you think
there is something we could improve, let us
know!
You can email us at;
yourvoice@bridgend.ac.uk
or by visiting
www.bridgend.ac.uk/your-voice
Your Guide @bridgendcollege 118 Core Skills
At Bridgend College we will support you to build
and develop 8 core skills that employers tell us
they need when searching for new talent.
Your study programme will be structured to enable
you to identify when you are using and developing
your core skills.
8 Core Skills
The 8 Core Skills are:
• Planning and organisation
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and innovation
• Personal effectiveness
• Digital literacy
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Welsh and bilingualism
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Welsh Language
We are committed to delivering a bilingual student experience and we strive to fulfil
our duties under The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 and the Welsh Language
Standards.
As a student, you have rights as part of these standards:
Welsh Language
• Letters in Welsh
• Apply for financial support in Welsh
• Welcome booklet in Welsh
• Prospectus in Welsh
• Welsh speaking personal tutor
• Counselling service in Welsh
• Meetings in Welsh
• Certificates in Welsh
• Submit written work in Welsh (this will depend on the examining body)
• Forms in Welsh
We have a range of Welsh activities running throughout the year, so keep an eye out on
our student portal and the electronic screens around our campuses.
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Success Centres
The College Success Centres provide students with
a welcoming environment for learning. You will find
books, journals, magazines, DVDs and a range of
electronic resources to help you with your studies and
assignments.
Support for You
There are also computer facilities and study areas,
along with friendly and knowledgeable staff who
can help you with resource finding, printing,
photocopying, binding and proofreading
assignments.
If you need support beyond your timetabled
sessions, our skills coaches work within our
Success Centres to support you in further developing
your literacy and numeracy skills, revision and exam
preparation, referencing and assignment writing and
bilingual support.
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Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Looked After and Young Carers
If you have an additional learning need We know that looking after other family
(ALN) it is important that you let us know members is a huge commitment. We
so that we know how to best support you have some great opportunities for
during your time at the College. If you students who are in care, care leavers
have not already told us about an or look after someone else. Don’t be
Support for You
additional learning need on your afraid to talk to us or ask for help.
application or at interview, please get in
touch with the ALN Team so that we can
make sure that we provide the right
Childcare
support for you. We have a large day
nursery situated at our
Contact the ALN Team: Cowbridge Road campus
01656 302 302 ext 417 in Bridgend. If you have
a young child, you can
Personal Tutor apply for a place at the
nursery. We may be able
You will be assigned a Personal Tutor to support with the cost
who will be part of your course academic of childcare. Please
team. Your Personal Tutor will meet with speak to a member of the Student
you to check progress, set personal Services team for more information and
and academic targets and help you support.
achieve.
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Bus passes are provided to all Our Wellbeing Team hosts a
students aged 16-18 who live 3 fantastic range of sport and
miles from their campus of study. enrichment activities across the
College. The Wellbeing Team
Passes are provided by the College also hosts a number of clubs and
on behalf of the following Local societies which you are able to
Authorities: join. The team provides support
• Bridgend County Borough with wellbeing, counselling and
Council • Rhondda Cynon Taff managing money.
County Borough Council • Vale of
Glamorgan County Borough Safeguarding
Council
We want our College to be a safe environment to learn
Applicants from other local and develop. You can help us by wearing your College
authority areas will need to contact ID badge at all times, telling us if you are concerned or
Student Services for specific advice. worried about something or someone else and being
mindful of your own behaviour and conduct.
Students aged 19+ may be eligible
for either a bus pass on one of our You can identify a member of the College safeguarding
contract routes or claiming team by their purple lanyard. If you or someone you
expenses (for public transport only). know is at risk of harm, please speak to a member of
staff or email: wellbeing@bridgend.ac.uk
Your Guide @bridgendcollege 19During your time at Bridgend College you may be eligible for financial support to
help with the costs of studying. Access to financial support will depend on your
household income along with some other factors.
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
Financial Support
EMA is a weekly payment to support 16-18 year olds with the costs of studying.
Payments are made directly to your bank account every two weeks providing you have
met the attendance requirements.
EMA will not affect any other benefit payments you or your family already receive.
You can apply for EMA if all of the following apply to you:
• You usually live in Wales
• You are aged 16-18
• You are studying at College for a minimum of 12 hours each week and your course
is approved by the Department for Education and Skills
• You meet the nationality and residency requirements
• You live in a household with an income of either £20,817 or less OR £23,077 or less
and there is more than one young person who qualifies for Child Benefit in the
household.
For more information or to apply visit: StudentFinanceWales.co.uk/EMA
20 #beallthatyoucanbe Bridgend CollegeWelsh Government Learning Grants (WGLG) If you are over 19 years old and studying on a full-time course you could get up to £1,500 or up to £750 for a part-time course, depending on your household income. You can apply for a WGLG if all of the following apply to you: • You are aged 19 or over on the first day of the academic year (1st September) • You meet the nationality and residency requirements • You live in Wales • You live in a household with an income of £18,370 or less • You are studying and/or progressing on an eligible further education course • You are studying on a course which is more than 275 hours of study across the academic year PLEASE NOTE: Any of the criteria outlined in the financial support section is subject to change. For more information on EMA and WGLA or to download an application, please visit: StudentFinanceWales.co.uk/FE Application packs are also available for collection from Student Services from April for the following academic year of study. Your Guide @bridgendcollege 21
Financial Contingency Fund (FCF)
The Financial Contingency Fund is open
to all full-time students and is a limited
fund. FCF can support students with
Financial Support
some of the cost of childcare, lunch,
course equipment, cost of travel or a
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
check. Eligibility for FCF is dependent
on your household income.
For more information or to apply for the
Financial Contingency Fund, please
contact Student Services.
Please Note, all information and eligibility correct at time
of print but is subject to change.
22 #beallthatyoucanbe Bridgend CollegeReporting Absence
It’s important that you let us know if you’re unwell
or unable to come to College.
Reporting Absence
We expect all students to maintain at least 95%
attendance, but we understand that there are
times when everyone is unwell.
Please call the College main switchboard: 01656
302 302 before the start of the College day and let
us know your name, student ID number, reason
for absence and when you expect to be back at
College.
Attendance will affect payments of any financial
support you receive from the College (EMA,
WGLG, FCF).
Your Guide @bridgendcollege 23A range of hot meals and hot and cold snack deals are available at each of our
campuses. We also serve hot and cold drinks, fruit and sweet treats*
You can pay by card at all of our food outlets, with no minimum spend required
Free WiFi access for students across our campuses
Facilities
Smoking or vaping is not permitted on any of our campuses - however, there
are designated smoking areas available on all campuses.
*This excludes our Cardiff Arts Academy
24 #beallthatyoucanbe Bridgend CollegeNUS Card
Who doesn’t love a discount? Sign up for an NUS card
and receive over 200 fantastic discounts for just £12 a
year, including…
• Half-price Spotify Subscription – just £4.99 a month!
• 35% off Dominos Pizza
• 10% off Jack Wills
• 10% off ASOS.com
• 10% off Topshop / Topman
• 25% off student ticket prices at ODEON
• 40% off at Pizza Express on a Monday and Tuesday
• Amazon Student Membership
NUS Card
Sign-up online at nusextra.co.uk
or at Student Services.
Your Guide @bridgendcollege 25Term Dates 2018/19
Term One Monday 3rd September – Friday 26th October 2018
Half Term Monday 29th October - Friday 2nd November 2018
Term Two Monday 5th November - Wednesday 19th December 2018
Half Term Thursday 20th December 2018 - Friday 4th January 2019
Term Three Monday 7th January - Friday 22nd February 2019
Term Dates
Half Term Monday 25th February - Friday 1st March 2019
Term Four Monday 4th March - Friday 12th April 2019
Half Term Monday 15th April - Friday 26th April 2019
Term Five Monday 29th April - Friday 24th May 2019
Half Term Monday 27th May - Friday 31st May 2019
Term Six Monday 3rd June - Friday 28th June 2019
26 #beallthatyoucanbe Bridgend CollegeClosure Days No students in College Thursday 20th and Friday 21st December 2018 Wednesday 6th February 2019 Thursday 28th March 2019 Tuesday 7th May 2019 Your Guide @bridgendcollege 27
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