Main Task 3: Reassurance / solutions
Pupils listen to short podcast excerpts from secondary teachers, university staff, and university students, which aim to reassure young people about common concerns. Pupils then discuss the extent to which these reassurances etc respond to their points raised in the interviews, and to the concerns raised by the S6 pupils in the first set of podcast excerpts.
Layla & Pearl
Layla and Pearl, undergraduate students, discuss flexible university journeys (01:06)
Pearl
Pearl also talks about her own process of adjustment at the start of university (02:36)
Emily
Emily Nordmann, psychology lecturer, offers her thoughts on students’ initial anxiety about university in the first excerpt, and why you don’t need to worry too much in the second (00:24; 01:09)
Andrew
Andrew Struan, head of the Student Learning Development Team, reminds us that everyone is going through the same process of adjustment, making particular reference to the idea of “impostor syndrome” (i.e. worrying that you don’t deserve what you’ve achieved) (00:52)