My dyslexia experience at university

Laiyba is a third year Law LLB student, who during the pandemic has spent time learning knitting from family and YouTube. Today, I will be writing about my Dyslexia experience before and at university. I hope it raises the awareness of neurodiversity and helps you understand the process I went through. My experience before university When […]

A Student’s Top Tips to Manage Your Time at University

Sam is a third year Journalism student and a Student Ambassador for Marketing and our WP team. If time management has been an issue for you in the past, university is the perfect place to fix that and become more organised as a person. Plus, it is an essential part of getting the most out of your experience. […]

Maximising your university experience

Mauro is a final year undergraduate student studying BSc Management, enjoys playing football and competing in 10km races. My first tip for university is to not cope with it, but to maximise it. This change of mentality will allow you to become a more engaged, social, and academically successful student. Here are my tips how to make the […]

Why I Changed University Mid-Course

Raad is a third year student studying Aeronautical Engineering and taking an online computer science course to learn new programming language during lockdown.  And what I learnt from the experience Choosing the right university is an important decision and even with extensive research there is only so much you can know about a course or university […]

Meet a Management student

Mauro is a final year undergraduate student studying BSc Management, enjoys playing football and competing in 10km races, and spent 50% of his time on sports training. Managing Management (and other things) As an athlete, going to university was a difficult choice because it would divert a substantial amount of my attention from training and performing. However, I decided that I could do both and […]

My Marketing Placement: Part 2 The Job

In Part 1, Juste describes the application for the Micro Placement programme. Here is the rest of her story about the placement: “My placement is remote, meaning I have been working from home due to the pandemic.” Skills gained I would have liked to be able to travel to the office and physically meet all […]

Meet our Micro-Placements team & Get your own placement

Hi, my name is Selin and I am the Micro-Placements Programme Coordinator here at City! I coordinate the student facing side of the Programme and oversee the student recruitment process onto the Programme and help facilitate the matching process between employers and students.   Although I may be biased in my opinion, the scheme is […]

A student’s guide to society life and the student voice

Anas is a third year LLB Law student at City, and is part of the Chess, Entrepreneurial, and Law Societies. Hello! My name is Anas and I am due to begin my third and final year as an LLB Law student in September 2020. (LLB is a fancy word for my degree classification).     […]

Money & How To Get It

Naomi is a third year student studying Economics with Accounting, who loves trying out all the amazing coffee shops around City.  Money is a popular topic when you’re a student! If we had as much money as we did advice about it…life would be simpler! Below are my tips on funding available to you as a student as well as how […]

Thinking of going to Uni? Let’s Talk

Aysha is a third year student, studying Criminology with Quantitative Methods, and has a cat named Buster.  Was I ready for university? I remember waking up to check my UCAS results. It was a difficult sleep that night and the wait was agonising to say the least. Once I knew I had been accepted at City, University of […]