Students – without
exception, who have you ALL interacted with? Lecturer? Technician? Head of School? The answer that is common to all of you
is the admissions team who were responsible for helping you gain a place
on one of our programmes in the school of biomedical & healthcare sciences.
As the
out-going admissions tutor, I have often been thanked by new students (and
their parents) for helping them gain a place on one of our undergraduate
courses. The truth is that I have
done very little! The real heroes
are the admissions team who are often behind the scenes, where nobody gets an
insight as to just what they do.
Let me introduce them to you………
From left
to right; Rachael Decieco (Undergraduate Admissions Team Leader), Emma Rowsell,
Ellie Barker, Suffia Conway, Eva Varga and Joel Forde.
This happy
group is the undergraduate admissions team that has talked to you in person or
on the phone, processed your UCAS applications, helped you with your
applications, informed you of course options and entry requirements as well as
those helpful people that have calmed you down in confirmation & clearing,
so that you can obtain the place you wanted at our university. In addition, they help organise
interviews at open/applicant days and have demonstrated the utmost patience and
professionalism when dealing with stupid enquiries from this school’s
admissions tutor!!
Finally, some of you from further afield have been processed and
recruited by our international team which consists of Lisa Ellis and Sue Mudge
(unfortunately, not on the photograph!): these two are experts in virtually
every country’s A-level-equivalent qualifications and are integral to the
admissions tutor decisions to recruit from the four corners of the globe!!
These are
the professionals behind the scenes that are and will remain to be the
recruiters of generations of our student cohorts to Nutrition, Exercise &
Health, Healthcare Sciences (Life Sciences & Physiological Sciences), Human
Biosciences and Biomedical Science.
Without the dedication and professionalism of this team, our school and our
faculty (PUPSMD) would not be in the healthy state it is today.
Thank you
for all your hard work guys,
Andy Foey
(admissions tutor, 2014-2016).
Our students raised money for the BBC's Children in Need Appeal last Friday 18th November 2016, by running a ‘drop in’ Health Clinic in the Portland Square building within the clinical skills suites in return for donations for charity. Together they raised £135.56 and completed health checks for around 40 individuals including ECG, spirometry, blood pressure, BMI and body fat measurements. Healthcare Sciences, Nutrition Exercise and Health students alongside Medical students were involved in running the ‘drop in’ Health clinic.
