Support for Students

Support for students covers everything the college does to support you and your learning: the information, advice, guidance and support that you need to achieve your learning goals.

This kind of support includes:
• The Tutorial System
• Study Support
• Financial Support
• Careers Advice
• Learning Centres
• Enrichment

Where can I get help?
For most of what you need, go to Student Services. There you can make an appointment to see whoever you need to see.
If Student Services cannot help directly, they will explain where you need to go and who you need to see. If you have any suggestions about improvements to our services, please let our staff know. If you have any complaints please see or write to Carole Drury, Head of Business Development and Client Services

Study Services at Kendal College
We can provide confidential individual advice on making your time as a student as productive as possible.

Services include:

Additional individual tutorials
In-class assistants: note takers, interpreters
Specialist dyslexia assessments and teaching
Identifying requirements for specialist equipment and resources eg: laptops,assistive software, hearing loops, radio aids
Adapted teaching and learning resources, such as large print, audio tapes.

The Learning Centre
The Learning Centre (LC) is a vital part of your learning experience and the staff in the various areas are all there to help you make best use of the Centre:

Flexible Learning Opportunities: enabling you to study at a pace and time to suit yourself
Library: this area houses books and journals that you can borrow or use within the LC.
Connexions Library: Careers and Welfare information.
Study Areas including quiet study booths.
Access to Computers: you are entitled to make full use of our computer network for research, preparation of assignments and communications. The centre is equipped with up-to-date hardware and software accessed via individual user accounts and passwords. You are required to adhere to the code of conduct in using the equipment and Internet facilities.

The Learning Centre currently offers students access to a wide range of books, journals, magazines, videos, DVDs and CD roms.
The Learning Centres also offer students access to a number of flexible use computers and on hand support and advice.

Student Services
Student Services at Kendal College aims to provide an accessible and wide-ranging service to meet the individual needs of all our students. A guidance and welfare service is provided throughout the day and at regular intervals in the evening. Staff can travel to outreach centres as required.

We can provide support for specific difficulties and disabilities including information available in different formats, loop system, tours of the college facilities to suit your needs. Please request what would best assist you in accessing the college.

Supporting Disabled Learners
We are committed to ensuring that you will be welcomed and supported in your needs. It may be that you have an impairment, disability or specific learning difficulty or are in need of assistance in accessing our courses and college facilities. We will make sure you are provided with the right type of information so that you can make an informed choice about how you will best learn and the environment we need to create to make sure you have a good experience of learning.

Access to college sites
We have redeveloped many parts of the college over the last year to ensure you can access all areas of the college. Both the Milnthorpe Road site and the Allen Building have lifts and there are marked disabled car parking spaces by entrances that can be pre booked through Student Services.
Consulting with Disabled Learners.