Personal Academic Coaching
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Getting the most out of your performance and experience in Higher Education is vital to your progress and wellbeing during your studies, and your prospects and opportunities after graduation. Personal Academic Coaching is an exclusive and tailored opportunity to benefit from a bespoke, VIP service from a coach who will help you on an individual basis to:
- Work to your optimal potential
- Enjoy your studies even when you face the greatest challenges
- Push beyond the limits you see in yourself
- Make best progress tailored to your personal academic needs and aspirations
- Motivate you if you are finding university too challenging, or not living up to your expectations
- Get the most out of the other opportunities university offers
- Manage your workload, social life, and other responsibilities
- Maintain your wellbeing
- Demystify the UK university system so you can thrive and be your best
- Learn to work both online and face-to-face for optimal performance
- Manage your assessment workload, getting results back, and making progress next time
- Work proactively towards the future of your dreams
Undergraduate students
When you arrive you may find that university is not what you expected in all sorts of ways, or that you are not sure how to work, or how to achieve the grades you want. Your wellbeing may be suffering because of the workload and more learning online. You may be about to start uni and want the reassurance of a personal academic coach to support you. Or you may be part-way through your degree and want some bespoke support to help you to achieve more, make the most of your experience, or to help you with a particular challenge. You may need to develop your confidence, or want to know how to push yourself more. Personal Academic Coaching can offer you individualised support from experienced academic coaches that your tutors are not able to provide.
International students – undergraduate and postgraduate
Coming to study in the UK is a big decision, and it is vital that your experience is the best it can be for the investment you are making in your future. But learning in the UK may be very different from how you were educated at home. Personal Academic Coaching can give you the individual support you need with an experienced academic coach to help you navigate the UK university environment, make new friends, and achieve all you are capable of. While your tutors will support you with your modules, they do not have the resources to give you all the support you may need or want. A Personal Academic Coach is focused only on you, your situation, and your personal challenges. They will provide you with support, motivation and enable your performance to develop so that you get everything you are capable of from being here.
Parents of international students at university in the UK
You may wish to invest in bespoke Personal Academic Coaching for your child at university in the UK to be sure that they are receiving individual support, and academic challenge, during their studies. There are bound to be challenges when young people find themselves in a different country and a different educational system. Your child is here in the UK for many different reasons. Sometimes you as parents want them to be here more than they do. For others, coming to study in the UK is a hard-won dream. A Personal Academic Coach can support your child during their university education in the UK in a way that a university tutor can’t. Your child will receive from us bespoke, focused coaching that supports academic performance, motivation, and wellbeing, to help your child to make the most of this wonderful opportunity.
Personal Academic Coaching is focused on students achieving their full potential, as people as well as students. If your child would benefit from improved confidence, socialising, being pushed to achieve more, or finding their own motivation to study, Personal Academic Coaching can offer tailored support from experienced academic coaches.
Students on doctoral programmes
A doctorate is a very significant undertaking, and takes a very long time in what is often quite a lonely work environment as you become one of the world’s leading experts on your topic of study. We know from research that postgraduate research students struggle with work-life balance, staying on track, and wellbeing more than any other student group. A doctorate is a significant investment of time, money, and your own identity as you sacrifice many other things to devote yourself to your research. And if you are an international student you may have other challenges to manage, sometimes bringing your family, including children, to the UK to enable you to complete your studies.
You will face all sorts of challenges as you embark on this exciting journey to becoming a doctor. Imposter syndrome can also affect you as you find yourself working with, or even challenging, highly-respected academics in your field. A Personal Academic Coach can support you to achieve your best, stay well by managing work-life balance, and navigate the doctoral study process. Dr Melanie Pope (Associate Professor) works exclusively with doctoral students. She has supervised doctoral students from across the world to successful outcomes, and is currently a doctoral supervisor. She is also a certified coach and a Member of the Associate for Coaching.
Personal academic coaching offers
- Solutions-focused coaching when challenges arise to ensure you can move forward
- Support to develop confidence and/or motivation
- Stretch and challenge to support your very best academic performance
- Clarification of your goals and aspirations, and support to take actions to achieve these
- The opportunity to ask questions you can’t ask your tutors
Personal academic coaching does not offer
- A 24/7 service. You need thinking time away from your coach to work towards the actions you set in the last coaching session
- Friendship: this is a professional academic relationship only
- Answers or a quick fix, or someone to tell you if you are right or wrong. A coach helps you to identify the best solutions that work for you
- Pastoral support: your coach is focused on your academic progress and actions
Bespoke VIP Student Coaching Packages
Gold package
15 individual coaching sessions x 90 minutes, spaced across your academic year
£4,500
Silver package
9 individual coaching sessions x 90 minutes, spaced across your academic year
£2,700
Additional sessions on application: £220 per 60 minutes, £300 per 90 minutes
Please contact us to discuss your personal academic coaching requirements. A 15-minute conversation is free of charge.
E: info@coachacademic.co.uk
T: UK – 07587 427363 International – +00447587 427363
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