INTO UK Ops: Recent Episodes
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Misbah Ashraf, the Chief Executive of Lancaster University Students’ Union (SU), talks about why the SU has such a huge influence on a students university experience.
Join Andrew Barker, the Library Director at Lancaster University as he talks about why his award winning library is at the heart of student life and their vision for the next two years.
Dr Fabrice Andrieux, Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Lancaster University talks about why Engineering students thrive at Lancaster and the University's ambitious expansion plans which will enable Engineering students at Lancaster University to receive the very best in teaching and research facilities in 2024!
Join Mutty Dad, Head of International Student Recruitment at Lancaster University, as he continues to talk about why international students are attracted to Lancaster University (part 2 of 2).
Join Mutty Dad, Head of International Student Recruitment at Lancaster University, as he talks about why international students succeed at Lancaster (part 1 of 2).
Sam Ridley tells us a little about himself as he takes on the role of International Recruitment Manager at INTO Manchester
INTO Newcastle Alumni Dellavinta Muliady and Ivory Prima Zefanya speak to International Year One Economics Teacher Tom Cosh about why studying Economics is crucial, even if you are progressing to other subject areas.
Emily Scullion (Head of IYO Architecture at INTO Newcastle) is joined by Heet Sanghvi and Isabel Mora - both IYO Architecture alum from INTO Newcastle now in their second and third year of Architecture study respectively. They discuss whether you need to be able to draw to study architecture, some of the transferable skills you develop in Architecture and some advice for potential students who are concerned about their drawing skills.
Recruitment Manager David Thompson chats with Damian Owen, the IYO Programme Manager at INTO Manchester about his programme, it's USPs and his students.
Simon tells us about his time at INTO City, his plans for the future and his experience studying both on-campus and online during Covid19
We are joined this week by Dr Nikos Komninos who discusses his programmme at City, University of London - the MSc Cyber Security.
Darya Makey tells us about her experience as a Foundation Business, Economics with Accounting student at INTO City.
Karen Bridges, Rob Ledbury and Matt Evans discuss some of the upcoming developments at INTO City in relation to embedding of employability experiences, skills and competency development within the pathway programmes at INTO City from September 2021.
Welcome to Susie Jones who has joined the INTO family as the new Assistant Director Recruitment at INTO Manchester!
Amy speaks to Dr Kevin Swingler (Programme Director for the MSc Data Science and MSc AI programme at University of Stirling) for a brief introduction and overview of the programme, and it's function.
Yaroslava Chopey - INTO City's Graduate Diploma Programme Manager - takes us through the structure of the newly-launched and newly-remodelled INTO CIT Graduate Diploma programme, which has lower entry requirements for the standard 3-term option (5.5 IELTS overall with 5.0 minimum in each subskill) and a new 2-term option.
Dagina speaks to Nur, one of our very successful Indonesian students at INTO CIT who achieved over 80% in her International Foundation in Actuarial Science programme.
A big INTO welcome to Javlan Abudurezhake!
Javlan tells us a little about his background, his experience as an INTO QUB student himself and his hobbies and interests.
In the 'Scottish Mythbusters' series Michael Chambers, Craig Evans and Matt Evans look at some of the common myths and misconceptions that we have heard around the world from students and agents and that you may well encounter when you are recruiting for our Scottish centres.
First up, we look at Geography, Travel and Weather!
Nikki Page, Admissions Manager at Cass Business School, meets with Dagina to discuss:
- INTO student success and outcomes from Cass Business School
- New programmes launching in Cass soon
- INTO City's upcoming 10-year anniversary
Marketing Assistants Ha and Ivory pick up with Donna Dowden, one of our very experienced EAP teachers at INTO Newcastle.
She talks a bit about her experience working with INTO students and specifically around the benefits EAP classes hold for students who may already have a high IELTS score.
Post-Study Work Visa: Facts straight our very own self-described 'Visa Automaton' Oli Selwood!
Current foundation business student – Gayane from Uzbekistan - interviews Paul Thompson, Programme Manager on the INTO UEA Business and Humanities Foundation Programme.
Paul talks about his personal experience with teaching as a career and working at INTO UEA. He also talks passionately about what is unique and beneficial about the foundation business and humanities programme and why UEA and Norwich are such great study destinations for international students.
I talk to Katy Hancock, University Partnerships Manager, about the Placement and Progression support team, what they offer to our students and how yourselves, in market, could work with the team.
INTO Giving Director Chris Walker to joins me to tell us more about INTO Giving, how Gen Z customers want to engage with companies who reflect their values and what our regional office can do to support the fantastic projects the charity supports.
Find out more at: https://www.into-giving.com/ https://www.into-giving.com/projects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50KDed5dX0
Or contact Chris directly at: chris.walker@into-giving.com
INTO Newcastle Marketing Assistant Ivory Zefanya interviews Thomas Kern, Architecture Programme Manager at INTO Newcastle.
Thomas tells us about his memorable experiences with students, how he became an Architect and relays some useful advice for any future architects out there!
Take a look at the fantastic INTO Newcastle Architecture yearbook for some examples of previous student's work: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/internationalpreparationcourses/files/INTO%20yearbook.pdf
Find out more about the three architecture pathways at INTO Newcastle:
https://www.intostudy.com/en-gb/universities/newcastle-university/courses/graduate-diploma-in-architecture
https://www.intostudy.com/en-gb/universities/newcastle-university/courses/international-year-one-in-architecture
https://www.intostudy.com/en-gb/universities/newcastle-university/courses/international-foundation-in-architecture
INTO City, University of London ADR Dagina Wetherill talks to us about INTO CIT centre, key progression courses at City, University of London and some of the best aspects to living in London.
INTO Exeter Centre Director Neil Macleod tells us a little about himself, his previous role in Glasgow GIC and his experiences in Exeter so far.
Dr Eddy Moran, Senior Lecturer in the University of Stirling's Top 10 ranking Education department tells us a little about the student experience at Stirling and the MSc TESOL and MSc Management and English Language Teaching programmes - two popular progression degree choices for students on the Graduate Diploma programme at INTO STS.
Welcome all to the first UK Ops Podcast with Errim Mahmoud, Katherine Brown, Xin Jiang and Matt Evans.
Here we will talk briefly about ourselves and what we aim to achieve with this series. Stay tuned for more episodes :)