Study Skills in UK Higher Education: Benefits, Listening Challenges

This essay delves into the realm of study skills within the context of higher education, particularly focusing on the advantages of pursuing education in UK universities. It highlights the reasons why students choose the UK for higher studies, including the quality of education, opportunities for work while studying, international recognition of degrees, and English language acquisition. The essay also addresses common listening challenges faced by students in university settings, such as linguistic barriers, concentration difficulties, and environmental distractions. Furthermore, it provides insights into developing active listening skills, emphasizing the importance of understanding the speaker's language, minimizing distractions, and focusing on the speaker's message. This resource, available on Desklib, provides valuable information for students seeking to enhance their study skills and navigate the challenges of higher education.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
1Choose four of the benefits mentioned above and discuss them in more detail............................3
2Personal experience: Discuss why you decided to study in the UK..............................................3
3Discuss some of the listening challenges students may experience at university..........................5
4Explain how students can develop their active listening skills......................................................5
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................8
REFERNCE..........................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTION
Universities are those institutions that are indulged in providing higher degree courses which
facilitates in the process of research, training, teaching, learning, etc. It is sanctions the degrees like
undergraduate and postgraduate, PHD, diploma courses and many more. There are various
departments in UG and PG courses. Majorly they are divided into two parts that is, professional and
non- professional courses, IT and non- IT departments. Universities in the United Kingdom are
among the top most educational institutions across the globe(Huang and Turner, 2018) . The quality
of education and the exposure provided in these educational organizations differs them from the
other universities or the institutions. The students after getting degree from UK are benefited in
different manner which are mentioned in the essay. That in what ways the universities in UK
enhance the performance of the students. It also discuss the experiences of the students in terms of
choosing UK in order to pursue their higher degree programs in the respective country. Further, it
also talks about the challenges faced by the students in terms of listening at the universities and
explains different techniques which can help the students in developing the active listening skills so
that they could become a good listeners.

MAIN BODY
1 Choose four of the benefits mentioned above and discuss them in more detail.
2 Personal experience: Discuss why you decided to study in the UK.
The student choose UK for doing there higher education, because this is one of the best place and
this provides top quality education in each and every field, if IT or non-IT includes professional
degree. Nearly five lakh student in every year register them in the institutions of United Kingdom as
per the preferences in terms of course, place, location, etc. not only student develop the sills of
academic but also they get to know the culture, newest experience and information for new things.
This ensures the overall development of student. The university which is located in UK, this
provides support and assistance to specially international students who comes for increasing the
knowledge and skills. This make students speaking skill better for making the required
improvement in the same. There are many benefit for study in UK-
Education of Top Quality- The United Kingdom's education system provide high quality of
education for the students. The system of education in not complex one this is compare to the other
countries. This will provide that the large number of the courses will be chosen through the
candidate as per their preferences. This have long term and short term courses. There are many
courses which were combined, in this the students will pursue the degree of masters with the PHD
program. This posses the best research staff in the universities. The institution of education facilitate
with diversification libraries, labs and museums(Epaminonda, 2020).
Doing Work when pursuing for the degree- This is the culture of United Kingdom in which the
students weather from country or outside country, doing their job while pursuing their studies. This
helps in gaining the experience of work with the degree. The per capita income of United Kingdom
gets higher, so this provides ease to student as per their jobs. The rate of employment in the country
is very high and the good amount of employment opportunities is given to the students. The
individuals will grow the skills and knowledge through finding the internship or part time job. This
adds various value in resume of students when the went to find the full time job in any of the
country. According to this, the students will manage the daily expenditure easily without putting any
burden for their families(Sreena and Ilankumaran, 2018).
Gets international acknowledgement for the degree- After completion of the degree which is
undergraduate or postgraduate, the students will get the international recognition in terms of the
degree and CV. This is because UK have an outstanding record in the academic area. The student

will become master in their own field through gaining the skills and knowledge. The doors for both
the sectors, whether this is government or private they will open it for the students worldwide.
Command on English language- In the recent time, the English have become one of the largest
language which is being spoken through the maximum number of people in the world. In this, the
learning language is important and this language have to be understood. With enrol in this
university of UK, the student automatically gain fluency on language because all the conversation
will be held in English at the university. As a part of this, there are various institutes which provides
the learning of language course in the country(Rembielak, Rashid and Parlińska, 2020) .
The United Kingdom is considered to be the best platform in order to pursue the higher degree
programs among the countries of all over the world. Besides the quality education, the educational
institutions in terms of universities provides the golden opportunity in terms of exploring the
different fields of education. The students are free to explore beyond the associated subjects that are
being included in their degree courses. Apart from studies, students can find high level of exposure
in various activities other than academics. There are various events takes place according to the
timely intervals. The students are allowed to participate in these activities without any kind of extra
charge. The students are not over burdened with a lot of stress related to their studies. These
institutions focus on the development of the students in order to enhance the growth opportunity in
their area of interests. That is why many students opt for the particular country so as to prosecute
their study program in the universities of United Kingdom(Guan, Song and Li, 2018).
In my opinion, studying in United Kingdom is beneficial because the system of the study structure
provides opportunity in order to develop the required skills and knowledge in the specific area,
which I have opted for my graduation. The exposure rendered by these universities in the filed of
academics and the other non-academic activities helps in developing my overall personality and
also boost the level of confidence. The flexibility in the education structure and the large number of
courses available in the universities provides a better growth to the career. Better understanding of
the concepts that are being taught by the experienced faculties created a big difference in the
learning aspects. Now I can recognize and understand the complex concepts in a simple way. One
of main reason for choosing United Kingdom to pursue my higher studies is the work culture of the
country(Yu and Moskal, 2019) . There are many opportunities for the students to manage their day
to day costs that is the part time jobs. It helps in providing the financial support to the students and
lessen the burden of the families in terms of giving monthly pocket money to the students so as to
meet the daily requirements of the students. I personally work in a store as a sales executive and I
am able to manage the financial needs. The study culture of the universities is not rigid and
cooperates with the students. The students also having the options of acquiring scholarships
according to the various courses. This helps in encouraging the students to enhance their capacity

and skills in terms of fulfilling the criteria for attaining the scholarships. This kind of learning
environment not only furnishes the personal growth of the students but it also helps in growing
them professionally. In my case, the culture of the speaking English in the university campus helped
in achieving a command or fluency over the language(Grace Chien, 2020) . The facilities are highly
tech friendly which includes digital libraries, well maintained classrooms with smart boards, various
types of laboratories, etc. One more important point I wanted to mention, that is the highly
experienced teaching staff and the supportive faculties in the university which gives me a
satisfaction. The techniques used by the professors are so simple that the students can grasp the
difficult topics very easily. The management of the universities provide proper assistance in case
any of the students face any kind of issues in the campus. They provide quick solutions to the
problems faced by the students(Кривова and Клементьева, 2021).
3 Discuss some of the listening challenges students may experience at university.
4 Explain how students can develop their active listening skills.
The term of listening will be defined as the thought of skills from which the individual listens
anything which is being addressed to him in the business. The individual take knowledge and learn
it for using in future through listening. The listening process includes two persons, one person is
who speaks and the other person listens to what he is saying to him. Mainly the there are one
speaker and many listeners. Many of the problems arise when the students listen in the class. The
problem is related to listening and this arise in recent scenario. There are many ways from which
the problem of listening will be solved in the business. The listening problem arise when the
speaking is done in any other language. This is a case in which the translation of language of speech
have been addressed through the lecture in class. The listening problem will be classified in many
groups which is suggested through the researcher in the field (Henderson Ryan and Phillips, 2019) .
In the year 1999, Mr. Goh knows many type of problems for listening which is to be solved through
applying accurate strategies. The problems involves quick forgetting after listening, not being
identify the words which is said through the speaker, did not understand the intended message, not
able to frame correct meaning of what is being said, etc.
In 1989 the Underwood, organize the problem leading for listening in such a lack of power on the
velocity which is spoken through speakers, this is not be able to get the belongings to repeated
through an person, the vocabulary of listener is small, they did not achieve in recognize the signals,
difficult to representation, unfitness in concentration and this made the learning habits. The problem
for sense is emphasises through Field in 2003 are that the learners experience the word, but did not
understand in clear way (Frey, Fisher and Smith, 2019). The listener should know the statement of

writing to sort but not for spoken version. In addition, the listener have trouble in catching words
through the adjacent speech as dialogue.
In year 2005, the Yiching thinks that some obstruction made trouble for listening in such a notion
barriers, barriers of material, habitual barrier, process of information barrier, barrier of English
competency, strategical barrier and emotive barrier. In 2006 the Yousif cites about mental barriers
when listening the value of speech rate in sensing and gives break at time of prolonged listening
activity. Moreover, the lectures have to be accurate for students in respect to listening difficulty and
adjust action to students. Generally there are 10 obstruction for listening. This view the opinion for
subject through speaker. This also include feeling of the listener and speaker. The distraction makes
hurdle in the listening process. Hearing is more than waiting which converts to conversation, many
people gets brain sick through planning what will they say next. Moreover, daydreaming is also a
hurdle for listener’s(Bailey and Lee, 2020) .
Hurdles of listening can be resolved by different ways. The ways are that the listener must
understand the language in proper manner in which the speaker is speaking as if the listener has less
knowledge of subject than listener would not understand the speakers saying. Here language plays a
crucial role of listening and process understanding. Also the concentration of high level plays a
significant role in act of listening(Rintaningrum, 2018) . It is due to if listener will not listen with
concentration then it will be hard for understanding the subjects clear meaning which speaker is
addressing. If there is concentration lacking then listener will take more times for coming back from
other subject or topic and listen to speaker.
Listening process is a important skills in every field of life ,if you are helping a closed one in their
health issues, colleagues handling or relation of house. But not every one is great at listening like
we consider in our minds. It can be seen while demonstration that we are hearing really, the it is
much appreciated for the individual to person as they will get more. The process of listening is
referred to as the active listening. It helps in avoiding the wrong interpretation and reduction of
conflict expected(Gafurova, 2020). They are the ways by which a person can manage for creating
skills of active listening in self. Firstly it consists of eye contact of listener and speaker. Eye contact
is a important step of face to face voice communication. Excessive contact of eyes can also
be intimidating, so accommodating the condition. Individual should try to break the eye contact in
every 5 seconds as it will show that you are hearing with attention. If the individual wants to look
more attentive than they must look at one eye for 4 seconds and the other one at 4 seconds. It will
lead to switching of sense of mouth. It will help in looking listener for part or up fitter down which
can appear like person wants the good conversation. Next way is for checking speakers posture and
form to avoid arm decapsulation or legs intersecting which will make you little defensive. By
leaning forward in posture which shows that listener is hearing. It can little bend the head on the

persons hand(BaikLarcombe and Brooker, 2019).
There are different ways of non verbal by which person can implement active listening by listeners.
It includes expressions of face of the person as they play a significant role in improvement of active
listeners. The expressions of face,voice pitch and indication tells much in less language. By paying
attention to the other persons saying by their body language like smile,crossed arms in defence,eyes
resistance if they are feeling tired. On telephone many information can be acquired by voice sounds
strengths. Another way of initiating the active listening is by not interrupting while speaking of
someone. It means that when person is speaking something to listener than they must not be
interrupted. It is due to if listener is interrupted between the speaking then it will lead to
concentration lacking of subject(Suppasetseree, 2021). Speaker will not be able to deliver the
speech as same as earlier interruption. It would create the feeling in mind of speaker that they are
not important than speaker. It will also reduce the self confidence of speaker. Listener should listen
in a way that it will not create any judgement for speaker or subject which speaker is addressing. It
is due to that speaker is judged for info they are delivering, then they will not be able to deliver the
speech in proper manner. Listener should listen carefully and not plan for argument with speaker.
Listener may carry off the queries to speaker in the end of lecture. No person can listen and plan at
same time. Listener should listen first and then plan for saying anything after the evaluation of
lecture delivered by speaker in case. The listener should also show some face expressions which
will show that they are actively listening to speaker. It can be done by head nodding,smile and many
more by listening the speaker in class. The speaker can also address the expressions of face of
listeners in class. It involves different factors which will show that ways of non verbal is also
important for initiative and competing the communication. Listener should not impose the opinions
on speaker without listening to speaker(Spataro and Bloch, 2018) . Listener should always focus in
the speech and listens to all the arguments of the matter of subject carefully. The speaker can ask
questions if there is any doubt in the subject of speaker. It will aid the speaker for realising that
listeners are actively listening to them. In this way speaker will also deliver the best info to the
listener. The last way of listening is by analysing and concluding about the info delivered by
speaker. It will also aid the listener for learning about info and knowledge which is given by speaker
in lecture.
CONCLUSION
The conclusion drawn from the above essay is that there are number of benefits provided by the
universities of the United Kingdom for the students who opt it for pursuing the higher studies. Such
as, quality education, great amount of exposure, opportunities of growth, job opportunities for the

students, international recognition, professional enhancement, personality development, command
over the English language and many more. This essay states the experience of the students in terms
of studying in United Kingdom. Further it discusses the listening challenges that might be faced by
the students in the university. And it also explains various methods through which the students
could enhance the active listening skills.
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