Student Counselling Center
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Academic Writing Project 1
Counselling Services are an important provision in university life. However funding is extremely limited. Analyse the information you find in the annual report http://www.leeds.ac.uk/uscs/downloads/Annual%20report%200607.pdf
and make recommendations for either cutting or increasing the budget.
Yu-Pu (Carrie)Hsieh
14 July 2010
Graeme Harrop
AESPIO
Word Count:367
The student counselling centre is a crucial department at the University of Leeds in many ways. According to the Annual Report, it provide not only individual counselling but also group work and trainings to students and faculties of the University to make the learning environment as supportive as possible. (The Student Counselling Centre, 2007) However, there has limited funding to help a growing number of people who need counselling services with different issues.
During our learning process at university, there are various concerns or troubles stop us from continuing our study or take us away from normal daily lives. As can be seen from the report that there are 1699 students used the counselling service in 2007, 9% more than the number of 2006, almost 70% of them attended individual counselling, which are excluding countless calls from students’ families, friends or university staff who are looking for information. These students have all kinds of problems within their university lives including relationship, academic and depression. (The counselling centre,2007) The counseling service aims to guide these students toward the best way to complete their degree or even prevent them from abnormal behaviour such as suicides.(Rickinson,1998)
From the self evaluation in the report, it can be seen that 97% of clients are very satisfied with their counseling experiences in 06/07 (The counseling center,2007), 36% of clients ,who gave their evaluation feedback, decided that they will stay at the university to complete their degree in 2009(Humphrys,2010),which...
Counselling Services are an important provision in university life. However funding is extremely limited. Analyse the information you find in the annual report http://www.leeds.ac.uk/uscs/downloads/Annual%20report%200607.pdf
and make recommendations for either cutting or increasing the budget.
Yu-Pu (Carrie)Hsieh
14 July 2010
Graeme Harrop
AESPIO
Word Count:367
The student counselling centre is a crucial department at the University of Leeds in many ways. According to the Annual Report, it provide not only individual counselling but also group work and trainings to students and faculties of the University to make the learning environment as supportive as possible. (The Student Counselling Centre, 2007) However, there has limited funding to help a growing number of people who need counselling services with different issues.
During our learning process at university, there are various concerns or troubles stop us from continuing our study or take us away from normal daily lives. As can be seen from the report that there are 1699 students used the counselling service in 2007, 9% more than the number of 2006, almost 70% of them attended individual counselling, which are excluding countless calls from students’ families, friends or university staff who are looking for information. These students have all kinds of problems within their university lives including relationship, academic and depression. (The counselling centre,2007) The counseling service aims to guide these students toward the best way to complete their degree or even prevent them from abnormal behaviour such as suicides.(Rickinson,1998)
From the self evaluation in the report, it can be seen that 97% of clients are very satisfied with their counseling experiences in 06/07 (The counseling center,2007), 36% of clients ,who gave their evaluation feedback, decided that they will stay at the university to complete their degree in 2009(Humphrys,2010),which...