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Our podcast series explores a variety of academic skills topics such as essay writing, plagiarism and statistics.

Current Episode (April 29th 2013)

International Students

“Quote, Unquote”

"Quote, Unquote": A Guide to Harvard Referencing

Welcome to Skills for Learning

Skills for Learning is a collection of resources to support the learning and teaching of academic skills.

Developing your academic skills is an essential part of successful study at university and your future employability. Academic skills include the use of IT, numeracy, academic literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, working with others and research skills.

We also offer Skills for Learning workshops and tutorials on academic communication, maths and IT skills.

Off-campus access: If you are accessing the site off-campus, you will be asked to log in using your user id and password from your student card. For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions page.

What you'll find on Skills for Learning

PDF copies of the timetable for printing can be found on the Workshop and Tutorials page.

What's new?

  • Microsoft Office 2010 training videos

    The tutorials offer a comprehensive guide to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The tutorials are broken down into main topic areas which are further divided into a set of sub topics.

  • Critical thinking

    Understand how critical thinking is used at university, learn how to analyse arguments and find ways improve arguments in your own work.

  • Graduate attributes

    Find out which Skills for Learning resources can help you develop your Graduate Attributes.

  • Problem solving

    Recognise a way of diagnosing problems effectively and develop techniques that can be used to solve them.

  • IT self study booklets - Office 2010

    These booklets are designed to be used for self learning as well as in the classroom. They cover various topics within Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

  • Time management

    Analyse how you use your time, identify areas for improvement and learn how to prioritise academic work and other activities.

  • "Quote, Unquote" - Online version

    The Skills for Learning guide to Harvard referencing is now available online in a collection of web pages.

Popular resources

  • Time management

    Analyse how you use your time, identify areas for improvement and learn how to prioritise academic work and other activities.

  • Models for structuring reflection

    Learn about the models and theories that you can use to help structure your reflective work.

  • Getting started with IT

    Identify key IT skills and learn some techniques to use your PC more effectively.

  • Team theory

    Learn about Belbin's team role theory, a number of other team development theories and assess the roles of members of your team.

  • Types of business

    Learn about the most important legal formats describing types of business and the advantages and disadvantages of each type.

  • "Quote, Unquote"

    "Quote, Unquote" is an authoritative source on author-date or 'Harvard' referencing. It contains the details of how to reference many types of sources and also gives advice on how to cite sources in your work.

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