Meetings with the Access & Degree Students

The target audience which we have been asked to aim our promotional materials at is 14 - 25 year old's, which is the age gap that we all fit into. On the 7th February we had a meeting with an Access student called Alice who is studying at Penwith College and we also had a meeting with a Degree student called Kaylie who is also studying here at Penwith. We were asked to come up with some questions to ask them so that we could get an understanding of what they think of the college and their course. Some of the questions that I came up with were:

• What course are you doing here?
• Why did you choose that course?
• What sort of things do you do on your course?
• What do you think of the new campus?
• What do you think are the strengths & weaknesses of the college?

We had our first meeting with the access student Alice, some of the answers that she gave us were, the course that she is studying here at Penwith is Access Health & Social Care. She described the course as a really intense course where you study different units in Biology, Maths, Physiology, English and Sociology. She also said that this is a good course which prepares you well for a degree course, it also prepares you well for interviews and for preparing your CV. The course is an attractive course which like Alice you could eventually end up in the nursing or teaching profession. She then went on to say how much the buildings and campus has changed since the first time she was here when she was 16. She said that their classrooms where just little portal cabins which is some much different from the buildings and campus today. 

The next meeting that we has was with the degree student Kaylie. We started off by asking her what course she was studying at Penwith, and she replied by saying that she is studying Foundation Degree in Community & Youth Work, which she said is a great course, with great rescourses and very helpful staff. She said that the reason she came back to Penwith after having children and they had started secondary school was because she sees Penwith as a local college who give education to local people, so she feels that the college is one big community, she also said that the college is so easy to access and has everything she needs.She did go to Falmouth college previously but she prefers Penwith. Kaylie said that she would definatley recommend this course to any one who wants to work with young people or communities. After completing this course you can then go onto continue to study at university level. She then also said that she prefers the college now to when she was here previously because all the new technology and buildings just make the college a nicer enviroment to be in and therefore makes it easier for her to study.