Reflection on Academic Skills Development and University Support

This report provides a comprehensive reflection on the development of academic skills and the support services offered by universities, specifically referencing Walthamin College. It emphasizes the importance of skills such as communication and time management, highlighting the role of university resources like libraries, language support, healthcare, mental health services, and disability support in student success. The reflection details personal experiences with these services, illustrating their impact on skill development and overall well-being. The report concludes by stressing the need for continuous learning and the development of essential skills for academic and professional growth, underscoring the value of university resources in overcoming challenges and achieving goals. References to relevant literature and journals are also included to support the arguments.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are crucial and play an important role in overall development of a
person. There are several competencies such as communication, time management are developed
during in students during their academics (McNatt, 2020). Universities provide several services
such as library, mental and well being support and language support to enhance the knowledge
and skills of learners. These services and assistance provide by universities play a great role to
shape the career of an individual. The current reflection is give appropriate information about
various skills that are required to develop during academics along with different services that are
provided by campus to learners.
REFLECTION
In terms to get success, it is essential to have some necessary skills and abilities that differs a
person from others. In the current competitive environment, it is crucial to develop competencies
to get an edge over other and grow in career (Numan and Hasan, 2017). Being a volunteer, I
realised that there are several skills that need to acquire by me and my peers in order to step
ahead in career. Different services are provided by university to give possible help to learners to
remain ahead in their career. For this, they provide library facility where students can get
updated content, different magazines, journals, articles and more. Books on different topics are
available at library that can be easily access by learners. In personally used to visit library to
enhance my knowledge and capabilities. Here, I got ample of books related to my interest along
with the recent articles that provide me information about surrounding. To be a good learner, it is
significant to get proper knowledge and library facilities help fellow students to learn more in
order to grow and explore in future.
Apart from this, there are following facilities are being provided by Walthamin college:
Library services: Here higher authorities of college provide books; journals as well as
articles on diversify topics and other specialized material in order to improve in knowledge and
skills of students. I personally know the significance of library as here several books and articles
can be found to get updated information. In context of respective college, there are books
available on its website that can be avail by learners by 24 hours. It is analysed that college also
provides e- resources and full text journals that can be avail even after college hours. In addition,
there is efficient staff present at library at any time to provide assistance and necessary support to

students in order to grow and expand in career. During academics me and my peers often visit to
library to get moat recent and updated content in order to improve our knowledge.
Language support: It is analysed that there is huge difference between academic and
professional skills. Here, main emphasis of university administration is to improve
communication skills of learners which will help them to perform better in professional career.
So, they also provide proper language support to students so that they can get success and
perform better at work place. For this, college design a new course under which they provide
complete assistance to students to improve communication skills. I used to work on my English
and communications skills during academics for future growth and success. I also attended
university program that was really worth and provide me valuable insights to improve my
English. There are instructors who continuously render proper assistance to students throughout
the course.
Healthcare: As college understand the importance of health of students. For this, there are
several doctors available nearby campus to provide timely health treatment to students. Several
healthcare service providers are present near college to ensure better health of learners. I
personally understand that it is important to stay healthy that helps to perform the assigned task
in an efficient manner.
Mental Health and well being support: It is analysed that several students take anxiety
and not able to cope up with college activities. It may depressed them and create huge problems
in their personal life. So, it is essential to give proper assistance to students so that they can cope
up with college environment. For this, college arranges counselling facilities to learner. There are
several students who face constraints in interacting with others thus it is essential to provide
them continuous basis. I analysed that this facility helped a lot to me and my peers to maintain
proper balance in personal and professional life.
Disability and dyslexia support: Disability and Dyslexia support provides effective
services to students to deal with mental issues in an effective manner. It is analysed that
administration arrange personalized sessions for learners in order to know and resolve the isseues
faced by students. It is monitored that learners often get several mental issued during academics
which need to be addressed in better manner. I also witnessed several difficulties duting
academics and college assistance and support helped me to deal with situation effecitvrly.

From above discussion, it is analysed that there are several services are provides by
college administration which is essential for students and helped them to grow and explore in
career. During academics, I availed numerous services from college such as library assistance,
counselling, language support, health services and more. These all facilities helped me and my
peers to develop certain skills to grow and explore in personal and professional career.
Therefore, there are several resources and services are provided by university that help students
to get better knowledge and skills and also assist them to overcome from various challenges
faced by them.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it is monitored that there is a requirement to continuously engage
in learning process in order to grow and explore in future career. It is essential to develop some
necessary skills for an individual to create difference and attain set goals. It is crucial for learners
to identify their strength and work on their weak points to make further improvements. There are
different services such as library and more are provided to students to develop competencies. In
addition, there are requirement of different skills to grow and explore in academics and
professional career. Communication, time management, decision making are some skills that are
developed by various resources available at university.

REFRENCES
Books and Journals
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Program (SREP) on middle school students' strategic skills, self-efficacy, and
mathematics achievement. Journal of School Psychology, 64, pp.28-42.
Lipka, O., Forkosh Baruch, A. and Meer, Y., 2019. Academic support model for post-secondary
school students with learning disabilities: student and instructor
perceptions. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(2), pp.142-157.
McNatt, D.B., 2020. Service-learning: An experiment to increase interpersonal communication
confidence and competence. Education+ Training, 62(2), pp.129-144.
Murray, N. and Nallaya, S., 2016. Embedding academic literacies in university programme
curricula: A case study. Studies in Higher Education, 41(7), pp.1296-1312.
Numan, A. and Hasan, S.S., 2017. Effect of Study Habits on Test Anxiety and Academic
Achievement of Undergraduate Students. Journal of Research & Reflections in
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