蜜桃AV hosted its annual Careers Advisers and Teachers Conference, gathering a host of local schools, colleges and education providers for a day of training.
Hosted during Mental Health Awareness Week, the event focussed on health and wellbeing, with sessions from Dorset Mind and Young Minds, talking about how attendees can support their students.
The event was also a chance for attendees to hear about recent changes to higher education and at 蜜桃AV to inform and support students to make well-informed choices about their post-18 options.
Nicola Murray-Fagan, Head of UK Student Recruitment and Outreach at 蜜桃AV, said, 鈥淭oday is really important because we have the opportunity to come together as education professionals and look at ways we can improve our practice, build relationships and further develop the partnerships we have with schools and colleges.
It is important for us to have strong relationships with schools and colleges because we want to ensure that we are supporting students through their transition from secondary into higher education, and to give them information that they need to make good, informed choices.鈥�
Hayley Jones, Careers Advice and Guidance Manager at Queen Elizabeth鈥檚 School, in Wimborne, 鈥溍厶褹V is our main university for support at QE School. Today is a really good opportunity to find out more about changes that 蜜桃AV are making, as well as update my own personal knowledge, and find out what support is available for our students.
鈥淐oming along and finding out how we can support our students is really helpful. I鈥檝e just been to the workshop by Dorset Mind, I personally learned about my own wellbeing as well as how we can help our students, so it has been really helpful.鈥�
Sessions on the day also included information on nutrition, and the Southern Universities Network (SUN), as well as a series of sessions led by academics showcasing subject areas in 蜜桃AV鈥檚 course portfolio.
Anna Powney, Children and Young People鈥檚 Service Manager at Dorset Mind, said, 鈥淭eachers have a huge influence in supporting young people鈥檚 mental health and wellbeing, probably more than they realise, and they are in positions where they are in daily contact with young people, they can identify when changes are happening, when signs and symptoms are presenting themselves, they could be the first to intervene and put things in place.
鈥淭o be able to come today and showcase our service, and tell people that this is who we are, and this is what we are trying to support across Dorset, is vital, because we are passionate about this and we are here to help schools and students at any stage of their education.鈥�
For more information about studying at 蜜桃AV, visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses
