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Well-being

Key to symbols

  • HB - handbook
  • F2F - face-2-face
  • web - -website
  • PG - peer group meeting
  • AA - Academic Adviser
  • IC - in class
  • BB - Blackboard
  • TC - targeted communication
  • CG - Crucial Guide

Counselling Service

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Sometimes students want to talk to someone completely detached from the School. The Counselling Service is available for all students, whether undergraduate, postgraduate or research students, at the University of Manchester. It is free and consists of a team of professional counsellors. 

Disability support

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Section 3: Disabled Students – February 2010 of The QAA’s Code of Practice states that:

‘Induction, or a set of enrolment activities, is often the first point of direct contact between students and their institutions. The operation of procedures for enrolment, registration and introduction of students to their programme of study can have a significant impact on the confidence students will have in the way their learning will be supported. The induction period can also provide a further opportunity for students to disclose an impairment and to discuss their requirements with relevant staff.

As with all stages of the student lifecycle, arrangements for enrolment and induction events should be inclusive and take account of the requirements of disabled students. This will extend to activities such as the completion of paper-based or online forms and attendance at induction or enrolment events’.

The arrangements for induction of new students should accommodate the needs of disabled students. Schools need to ensure that:

  • induction events take into account the access requirements of disabled students
  • staff who are responsible for organising induction programmes take into account the requirements of students with disabilities including orientation training for, for example, visually impaired students
  • during induction, there are opportunities to identify or reconsider the support needs of disabled entrants and to confirm that they are in place’

The University offers a range of support services for disabled students. 

First aid cover in buildings

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Students should be informed that anyone requiring first aid for themselves or for others should contact one of the first aiders situated in the building; their names and telephone numbers are posted in commonly used areas.

Nightline

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Nightline is a confidential listening and information service run for students by students. The phone number is on the bottom of the student’s library card, or students can contact them via email on nightmail@manchester.nightline.ac.uk.

Occupational Health (Services available for students)

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The Occupational Health Service provides services for students such as:

  • advice on fitness to study
  • comprehensive travel advice including vaccinations
  • information leaflets

Police, safety and security

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The Crucial Guide has information for students on safety, identity theft and IT security, personal safety, money laundering and advice on the safe use of social networking. The University Neighbourhood Policing Team also provide the following policing timetable leaflet for students.

Religious support

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  • St Peter’s Chaplaincy provides chaplains for the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed churches, and can advise members of other faiths of the nearest place of worship.
  • The Roman Catholic Chaplaincy is at Avila House.
  • Hillel House provides facilities for Jewish worship.
  • The University of Manchester Islamic Society maintains the prayer facilities for Muslim students on campus, in the MacDougall Centre and in the Sackville Street Building.