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MY FIRST DAY… IN 9 YEARS – Training to be a Nurse
Backpack, check. Pencil case, check. Textbooks, check. Notepad, check. Lunch and snacks, check. No this isn’t my check list for sending the little one off to their first day of nursery or school, it’s for me starting my first day at University of Worcester to study Adult Nursing as a mature student. Mature student… I sound so old and compared to some of the fresh-faced students just out of college or sixth form, I certainly feel it. Yet my excitement for the course and learning something new, as well as my enthusiasm to succeed is equal to all my new classmates and colleagues. I think going back to education for…
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My First Steps in HE – Kieran’s Story
Now that I’d completed phase one, it was time for phase two. My first couple of weeks at University. On the first day of Uni, I was really nervous for a multitude of reasons. Not only was I going there as the first in my family, but I was also going there as someone who’d never really been to Worcester before. I’d also never travelled on the train by myself before. Don’t be afraid if you feel the same when you start University. It’s natural. For me, I was only going to a city that’s 45 minutes away from where I live, but for others, it could be that you…
