Our students benefit from excellent facilities and personal support.
Students have access to:
- Modern well equipped teaching rooms
- Dedicated podiatry and physiotherapy clinic
- Occupational therapy skills rooms
- Dissection laboratory
- Well-equipped Human Movement Laboratory
- Recently refurbished extensive library and computer pool rooms
- Access to excellent stock of health professions academic journals
- Free internet access from halls
- Free access to some online journals
- Wide range of sports facilities
The school offers a high level of personal and academic support. Students are each allocated a personal tutor and can also rely on support staff to assist with admissions, placement and other information. Most staff operate an "open door policy" and have a booking sheet outside their offices so that students can identify mutually convenient times to meet.
In addition, the university's Student Services Department also offers a wide range of services to enhance the learning experience. During the autumn term, weekly group study support sessions are provided on each site and all students are welcome. Each session lasts for 60 minutes, is free, and is led by a qualified learning support tutor. Topics include:
- Get organised for lectures and for study
- Improve your time management
- Make your reading more effective
- How to plan your essays / assignments
- How to structure your essays / assignments
- Making references; and how and when to quote
- How to revise and improve your exam performance
- Dissertations, reports and projects
English language support
International students are offered free English language tuition in their first year of study. During orientation week, international students are assessed and advised on the level of language support that we feel they need. Classes are held weekly on the main campuses. They help with written assignments, developing seminar skills and understanding lectures in English. There is also help with spoken communication skills which are needed in every day life.
The University of Brighton has a disability and dyslexia team which coordinates support for students who declare a disability or a specific learning difficulty.
There is support available in the following areas:
- Specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia
- Mobility difficulties
- Hearing impairments
- Visual impairments
- Mental health difficulties
- Other disabilities and long-term medical conditions
Full details are available on studentcentral, the University of Brighton's student intranet. It has been created as a 'one-stop-shop' for everything students need while studying at the University of Brighton.
