Tip Sheets
UNE Student Assist has a series of easy to read tip sheets that can be collected from our reception or downloaded. A brief description of the content of each tip sheet is presented below. If you require more information phone (02) 6773 2897 or email.
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Tips To Help Mature Students Orientate to University Study
Mature students bring a wealth of knowledge to tertiary study. Discover how to play to your strengths and overcome challenges at university.
How To Get The Most Out Of Orientation
Tips to get the balance of information seeking, socialising, and settling in right in those first few weeks of university life.
Guide To Overcoming Homesickness
Many students experience homesickness when starting uni. Know that this is normal but also learn strategies to start enjoying where you are.
Tips for Students Raising Families
Many of you are raising families while studying and we've asked you to share your secrets to success in this tip sheet.
Off Campus Students: Your Survival Guide
This provides beginning off-campus students with some practical information about how to access academic, personal and financial assistance at university, as well as some tips on time management and strategies for building confidence in your academic ability.
Managing Life Stresses
Find out more about how stress affects us physically, emotionally and cognitively, along with strategies for dealing with it while you are studying.
Unwind with Meditation and Relaxation
This tip sheet focuses on the practice of meditation, explores what it is, how it is beneficial and how to go about incorporating meditation in everyday life.
Mindfulness In A Student's Life
Discover how the practice of mindfulness, attending to the present, can improve your study.
Perform Well: Dealing with Examination and Performance Anxiety
This explores how you can change your thinking and your behaviour in order to reduce any anxiety about completing exams or presentations of your work.
Staying on Track: Escaping the Procrastination Trap and Staying Motivated
This helps you become aware of the underlying reasons for your procrastination and what maintains the habit. It gives you some strategies to move forward and stay motivated.
Concentrate Better and Remember More - Concentration Tips
Concentrate Better and Remember More - Memory Tips
These contain information about improving your memory and your ability to concentrate, especially in a study session or when preparing for exams.
How To Apply for Extensions, Specials, And/Or To Appeal Results
Processes you need to know if seeking a short extension of time for overdue work,"special" longer extensions, "special" consideration for exams, "special exams" sat at a later date, or to appeal any results.
How to Stay Sane While Writing a Thesis
Hints to help you survive writing a research thesis, either at Masters or PhD level. It addresses how to get the best out of your supervisor, finding a topic and maintaining a focus and direction, time management, maintaining self-confidence through the highs and lows, pushing through a writer’s block, and working in isolation.
Sleep With Ease: Some Practical Help with Sleep Problems
This addresses how much sleep we need, the different stages of sleep, and the do’s and don’ts of getting a good night’s sleep.
Enhancing Your Self-Esteem
This gives useful strategies to improve your self esteem, and includes paper and pen exercises to help you understand how your thoughts influence your self-esteem in either a positive or negative way.
Healing and Pain Management
This explores different approaches to pain management including psychological approaches and practical strategies.
Studying When Distracted
This gives strategies for refocussing on your studies when unexpected stressors arise.
Living In A Shared House
This gives strategies for how to keep things fair, friendly, and fun in a share house arrangement.
Ending A College Relationship
Includes tips on how to end a relationship in a way that minimises future conflict, confusion and hurt feelings.
Keeping Sex Safe and Ethical
Smart tips for keeping sex safe, ethical/consensual.
Thriving On Placement
If you are a student enrolled in a course that requires you to complete a placement, internship, fieldtrip or some sort of practicum, then this tip sheet is for you.
Time Tips for Trimesters
Includes a range of time and self-management tips for balance and flexibility in how you complete your studies within a trimester model.
Beating the Winter Blues
Learn how to stay healthy, positive and energised during our winter months.
Emotional Wellbeing for Law Students
Quick and easy tips to manage the demands of being a law student. These tips are also relevant to students in other disciplines of study.
Keeping Your Grass Greener
A wellbeing guide for medical students - a joint publication by the Australian Medical Students' Association and the New Zealand Medical Students' Association.
CDs on the above topics can be collected from our reception or requested by phone. For more information about our CDs or Fact Sheets phone (02) 6773 2897 or email via AskUNE
The following link takes you to a site that includes a range of tip sheets from universities all over the world - covering a wide range of topics such as alcohol, eating disorders, grief, relationships, sleep, and test-taking. Check it out!