University Blog: The Inside Story

Christmas is always an exciting time for our students. As the nights draw in and the temperatures drop, students are looking forward to finishing their assignments, celebrating with their friends and family, experiencing the festive experiences the city has to offer, and enjoying a well-earned rest after a busy first term of the year.

Christmas is a little over a week away, and the pressure to buy gifts for those close to you is probably mounting! Unfortunately, your budget is more than likely stretched to the max already and at this point and you’re probably questioning how you’ll make another 3 days’ worth of meals out of a Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle, half a loaf of questionably stale bread, a pot of thyme seasoning and the single frozen Yorkshire pudding you found at the back of the freezer!

Each year, the Animal Psychology students go on a trip to Chester Zoo where they have the opportunity to see behaviours in action in a variety of fascinating species and to collect some data in a mini-project designed in teams. This year, one of these teams, led by Tom, provided a taste of the day. 

The International Tourism Management degrees at Chester are full of opportunities and enjoy high student satisfaction and progression to employment.

Chester offers the chance to study in one of the UK’s top tourism destinations, it was voted the second best place in the UK to live in 2017 and receives over 9M visitors each year. Our industry links provide unrivalled internship opportunities with Royal Caribbean International which are unique to Chester. 

Our first year students visited Chester Cathedral as part of their first assignment. The Operations Director at Chester Cathedral gave the group some insight into the day to day running of the Cathedral, the challenges faced and the Marketing techniques used in order to encourage visitors to the Cathedral. The students experienced the tower tour and were given a display by the team who run the Falconry, despite the heavy rain!

It’s estimated that there’s currently over 500,000 people working in the sport industry in the UK and, given the impetus of the London Olympics, the World Athletics Championships and other major sporting events, this figure is set to grow quickly.

The Sport Marketing and Management programme at the University of Chester is aimed at those who aspire to work in management and marketing roles within the sport industry. It will also be of interest to individuals already working in the sector who are looking for an academic platform to further enhance their career prospects.

In Accounting and Finance at Chester students receive support and guidance to help them progress to employment with workshops and interview skills tips from firms like KPMG and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

With Business Management degrees opening doors to more careers than other undergraduate degrees (Hacket 2016), choosing to study Business Management makes sense for your future career and is our most popular business degree choice.

At Chester we offer the chance for you to specialise in either Business Finance, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources or Marketing. The perfect choice if you’re career focused and know the area you want to enter. These courses give you the competitive edge in the jobs market.

Dance students from the Performing Arts Department of the University of Chester collaborated with lecturer Angharad Harrop to create a film for the Pina Bausch Foundation's NELKEN-Line project - a global project celebrating the legacy of renowned German choreographer, Pina Bausch and her work with the Tanztheater Wuppertal.

As far as the British government was concerned, the answer to this question was simple: men of military age should volunteer for the army and then fight – normally in the trenches of the Western Front – to defend their homes, family and country. As this well-known poster implied, the First World War was certainly not the time for a healthy young man to be sitting at home in a comfortable armchair; his place was instead at the front.

Graduation is one of the highlights of the year, and our new graduates have been sharing photos of their well deserved success!

If you’re in the process of filling in your UCAS application and deciding on your future university, you’ll have probably attended a few open days by now. Visiting in person is the best way to see and feel if an institution is right for you. Although we know it can be difficult to fit all the open days in, with so many of them landing on the same weekends.