We're determined to give you the support and help you need while you're at Exeter College. We want you to enjoy and achieve and our student services, support teams and tutors are geared up to help you with your course and training work, your career plans and any personal issues that might be affecting you.
Whether you are a full time student or apprentice you will have a personal tutor or skills officer who is dedicated to help with any concerns you may have about your course/training and help you with any personal issues you may have.
Your tutor or skills officer is the essential link between you, your subject lecturers or skills trainers, a whole range of support services at the college, your parents/guardians and your employer if you are an apprentice. They will:
- Give personal advice and support on all issues facing you such as health, welfare, well-being
- Agree your individual learning plan, course and training targets and give you progress reviews
- Help you with study skills
- Check on attendance
- Keep your parents informed about your progress
- Encourage you to take up extra activities that will help you enjoy and achieve
- Talk to you about your career plans
Your lecturers, trainers and tutors will help you throughout your course or
training but you may also need additional help from our Learning Support Team. This expert team is dedicated to help all learners have equal opportunity, regardless of any physical or learning
difficulty/disability. We help you with:
- Specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia or dyscalculia
- Hearing or visual impairment or disability affecting your mobility
- Mental health or emotional difficulties
- AD(H)D, dyspraxia, autism, Asperger's Syndrome
- Maths Skills Workshops
- Support with exam access arrangements
We also work closely with our partners to ensure students get specialist support if needed.
For more information:
Telephone: (01392) 400439
Email: learningsupport@exe-coll.ac.uk
If English is not your first language, you can attend up to two English Language classes a week to continue to improve your academic English.
The college has a team of counsellors who provide confidential support on anything that is bothering you - college worries, home concerns, personal problems or relationship difficulties.
You can contact our counsellors yourself, or via your tutor, nurses or any member of staff in the college.
We have a medical room on the Hele Road site that is open during term time 9am - 4.30pm where you can go with any health concern and gain advice and support from our nurses. If you cannot get to the medical room then you can contact the nurses on the phone 01392 205455.
The nurses also support tutors with health education sessions and also liaise with GPs and other health professionals on your behalf.
Our Bursary Scheme is funded by the Government to help you to complete your studies if you are in financial hardship.
Those most in need will be eligible for a £1,200 a year. This includes young people in care, care leavers, young people receiving income support and young people who are receiving both Employment and Support Allowance and Disability Living Allowance. Young people eligible for income support will include some young parents, young people estranged from their families and those whose parents have died.
If that does not apply to you, but you are facing financial hardship, you can apply to the Bursary Scheme to claim help with the cost of equipments, transport, food and other course related costs.
Applications are assessed on a needs basis; evidence of need is required with any application made. The assistance you receive is discretionary and will always be conditional on your attendance and with you keeping within the terms of the 'Student Code of Conduct'; which you sign at the start of your course.
For many students facing financial hardship, the Bursary scheme can be the 'key' in enabling them to succeed at Exeter College and secure a better future.
For further information on how to apply and who is eligible please follow the links below.
Please click here to download the Exeter College Bursary Scheme 2011/12 Application form. (Will be under 19 years of age on the 31.08.11).
Please click here to download the Bursary Scheme Guidelines
Support if you have a child
Students under 20 years old can get financial help with their childcare costs from Care to Learn.
Care to Learn will pay for:
- Childcare costs while you learn
- A deposit if one is charged
- Travel expenses to and from your child care provider
To find out if you are eligible and to apply, click here.