Flying Start
Get Off to a Flying Start!
A Flying Start summer event (residential or non-residential) offers an exciting introduction to university for prospective students prior to entry and it’s absolutely free! Sessions are run by lecturers and student mentors and cover the basic skills and knowledge you’ll need for life at UCLan. Flying Start will also introduce you to the University's support systems.
The following students share their experiences of Flying Start, just for you. A third year student in 2007 comments:
“The best thing about Flying Start was that I kept in contact with my new friends over the rest of the summer and when it came to starting uni and moving in, I already knew people. It was great because I didn’t feel nervous or alone at all!”
Another student made a firm friend through the programme:
" As a student visiting Flying Start, it reassured me that my transition to uni will be a lot easier, I also met a good friend whom I live with now in my second year!"
Flying start also helped a student confirm her choice of course:
“When I attended Flying Start, I could not wait to come to UCLan. I felt comfortable in my surroundings and it cemented my choice of course and the place I wanted to build skills. I have met some wonderful people and it was all because of the flying start programme.”
An undergraduate Deaf Studies and Education felt it gave her an advantage at UCLan:
“Through my Flying Start friends I met more people , their flatmates and people from their course etc. I am now reaching the end of my second year and I am still friends with all of them. Flying Start was great because it gave me a head start at uni and made me feel so much more comfortable in my first couple of weeks!”
Of course, not everyone uses the service and some wish they had. So it’s worth considering whether it would be right for you. One student benefited from Flying Start even though she’d never used it:
“I came to University as a reluctant student who had decided before even moving to university that I was going to give up before the Christmas holidays. However, my plans soon changed after moving to Preston and meeting my fantastic flatmates. I was fortunate enough to have four people in my flat that had all been on the Flying Start summer schools.
Because of their experiences of the university and the knowledge they had acquired about the university and Preston as a city, they were better prepared for the start of their university lives than I was and were able to help me in so many different ways.
To get more info on Flying Start flyingstart@uclan.ac.uk or alternatively telephone on: 01772 893850
