Academic Skills, Confidence, and Support Services at Waltham College

This report discusses the importance of academic skills in enhancing learning and confidence. It highlights various support services provided by Waltham International College, including library resources, language support, healthcare, mental health services, and computing facilities. The report emphasizes how these services contribute to students' academic success, health, and overall well-being by fostering a supportive learning environment. It concludes that developing academic skills and utilizing available support services are crucial for students to become effective and efficient learners, ultimately improving their educational performance and future employment prospects. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments for students.

Academic skills and
studying with confidence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The skills that facilitates an individual in providing benefits to the academic pursuits such
as presentation, report writing as well as research. Such kinds of skills help a person in
improving the approach of learning which not only increase the level of confidence but also
facilitates in taking participation within the different non-curricular as well as curricular
activities. These skills consist of critical thinking, academic integrity, referencing, academic
writing and many others. In context to the academic performance, the level of confidence is
considered as a stronger predictor of success in comparison to the self-esteem (Chuang and et.al.,
2018). The individuals that are holding greater achievements of the academy are tending to feel
more confident. In this portfolio, different support services are going to be discussed that will
facilitate a person at its academic level or in future employment along with the explanation of
methods in which such services will assist an individual.
MAIN BODY
Those activities that are given to or on behalf of a person within the areas of self-
development and assistance through which an individual can become an effective person are
called Support services. There are different support services that are provided by Waltham
International College to its students and some of these support services are described as follows
along with their significance as well as use:
 Library Resources: At Waltham International College, this kind of support service is
offered to the students having access to a wide number of books, journal articles as well
as other specialist materials. These resources are essentially required by the students in
order to complete their studies in an effective manner. The college has its own library that
offers all texts along with further readings as well as latest editions of all the text books
that belong to basic category. Students of the respective college can borrow wide variety
of books from the library of the college for a specific period of time (Cottrell, 2020). The
local libraries are only a little steps away from the college and t the institution also
facilitates the students in order to become a member of another better and effective
libraries within London for forward reference. By issuing the books from the library, the
students of Waltham International College can take assistance through taking the notes of

the topics. They can also gain more and useful insights of the different topics from the
books of the library.
 Language Support for students: This is another kind of the support service that is
offered by the Waltham International College. The English language that is used by the
students in their higher level of education can be varied from the English language that
the students have learnt at the college or the school. In order to develop the students with
the academic English with which the students are required to get familiar with, the
respective college provides the courses throughout the student's time with the college
(McLean, 2018). At the time of continuing with their studies, learners or the students who
are willing to improve the skills of Academic English get empowered as well as
encouraged in orer to attend the language classes.
 Health care: Within Waltham International College, there are a large number of doctors
as well as providers of health care nearby the college. The respective college also states
that the safety of the students and their general health is very significant for the college.
These types of support services facilitates in fostering the healthy behaviours among the
students which will inculcated by them for their life. The most common health care
services that are offered by the Waltham International College are blood pressure, vision,
growth as well as development, cholesterol, hearing, dental health screenings. This
college offers health services because good health of the students is connected with the
reduction of the drop-out rates as well as higher educational attainment. It also improves
educational performance, productivity as well as employment. This is done by the colleg
as assess to the education along with safe and supportive environment of the college have
been connected to the effective and better outcomes of the health.
 Mental health and well being support: In context of Waltham International College,
the mental health as well as well-being services of the students provide short-run
assistance and advice to all the students of the college that are already experiencing
personal issues or complexities (Peters and Romero, 2019). These problems may be
related to the struggling in order to cope at the college or just require someone to talk to.
The advisors within the respective college can also provide assistance yo the students of
the college in finding the support from a counsellor in case of the requirement. Such kind
of support service is free of cost within the college and is also considered as confidential.

A large number of appointment days as well as times are available within the college for
the students who are facing certain problems.
 Computing and Internet facilities: In context to Waltham International College, the
institution has both dedicated plenty of PCs for the students of the college as well as the
facilities that are related to the instructional computing. Within the respective college, hi-
speed dedicated connections of the broadband are available for accessing the services of
the internet for all the students of the college. Additionally, the college is also offering
the support service of free Wi-Fi hotspots for the learners or the students. With the help
of reliable internet connection, the students of the college are able to access more
information than has ever been exists in the history of a person (Tamis-LeMonda and
et.al., 2019). Computer system revolutionizes the approach of study while creating the
education in a smooth as well as quick way. By making use of the computer services, a
student can also get connected to the multiple sources expressing various ways in order
to understand a specific idea or a topic. In common sense, the facilities of the computer
has facilitated the world of the education as well as has also changed the process of
working and learning of the students.
CONCLUSION
From above explanation of the report, it has been concluded that development of
academic skills play an essential role in the life of a individual. It facilitates a person in
enhancing the base of its knowledge through gaining proper insights of the particular topic. Such
types of skills encourage the learners or the students in order to become more effective as well as
efficient. Within this portfolio, different types of support services have been discussed along
with their use and importance that are provided to the students at academic level. These services
are the significant element for the students as such facilities give effective approach to the
students in order to continue their studies.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Chuang and et.al., 2018. Effects of a skill demonstration video delivered by smartphone on
facilitating nursing students' skill competencies and self-confidence: A randomized
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Cottrell, S. 2020. Teaching study skills and supporting learning. Bloomsbury Publishing.
McLean, H. 2018. This is the way to teach: insights from academics and students about
assessment that supports learning. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher
Education. 43(8). 1228-1240.
Peters, M., & Romero, M. 2019. Lifelong learning ecologies in online higher education:
Students' engagement in the continuum between formal and informal learning. British
Journal of Educational Technology. 50(4). 1729-1743.
Tamis-LeMonda and et.al., 2019. Early home learning environment predicts children’s 5th grade
academic skills. Applied Developmental Science. 23(2). 153-169.