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Learner Services

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Learner Services provide a range of professional assistance, aimed at supporting your learning experience.

We offer a comprehensive range of specialist information, advice, assistance and support, with Student Services staff aiming to help you get the most out of your time here; not only maximising your potential for personal and academic growth, but helping you enjoy the student experience to the full.

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If you are uncertain about what course or career path would be best for you the Careers Team at Filton College are here to help. We will not tell you what to do, but we will talk through your ideas and look at the options that are available to you. You may only need to see us the once, but you can use the career facilities as often as you need to, at a time which is right for you.

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Counselling Open Counselling Section Close Counselling Section

Once you are enrolled on a course at Filton College we provide a confidential and professional counselling service, which is totally free. By talking things over with someone who is uninvolved and non-judgemental you will be able to find your own solutions, come to your own decisions, discover different ways of looking at and coping with College life.

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Filton College Student Union is open to all learners of the college, full or part-time. We’re based in the Student Union office in the diner on Filton Avenue site, or Student Services G32 at WISE but you can use the services whichever campus you’re based on. The Union means different things to different people – some students use it only once, some every week that they’re studying!

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The College Welfare Advisors can provide you with information, help and advice about a range of matters.

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Disability Open Disability Section Close Disability Section

Our aim is equality for students with a disability. We take practical steps to assist and advise
disabled students, including those with Special Educational Needs.

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Filton College students undertake work placements on many of our vocational courses. Students may be studying at:

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Filton College recognises that many students, because of difficulties in learning including dyslexia and/or missed educational opportunities, will need significant help in the form of additional support in order to succeed on a course for which they are in every other way suited or qualified to follow. Such additional support also aims to aid retention, achievement and progression.

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Aimhigher is a programme of activities to encourage young people from all walks of life to enter Higher Education. The main function of the programme is to raise achievement and to increase awareness and aspiration of students towards entering university. The government target is that by 2010 50% of all 19-year-olds will be enrolling on courses in Higher Education.
Filton College is part of this programme and forms part of a larger partnership.

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Filton College
Filton Avenue 
Filton BS34 7AT
Tel 0117 9092297 
Fax: 0117 9312637
email: learnerservices@filton.ac.uk

Filton College (WISE Campus)
New Road
Stoke Gifford
Bristol BS34 7AT
Tel 0117 9192605

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