Waltham International College: A Portfolio on Student Support Services

This portfolio provides an overview of the student support services offered by Waltham International College, highlighting their role in enhancing the academic experience. It discusses services such as student advice, library resources, language support, and mental health and well-being programs. The reflection section details how these services aided the student in completing assignments, accessing academic resources, and managing mental health. Recommendations are made for further improvement, including the integration of digital technologies and additional therapy sessions. The analysis concludes that Waltham International College offers reliable resources to its students, fostering a supportive learning environment and addressing both academic and non-academic needs.

Portfolio Assignment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Student support services offered by Waltham International College..........................................3
Reflection....................................................................................................................................4
Recommendations.......................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills determine as the skills thy assist the students in order to develop habits
that facilitate in academic pursuits such as presentation, learning research etc. academic skills
plays one of the vital role in the student academic career. It enhance the efficiency of learner,
develop the confidence in the student in order to take the participation in the academic courses
and support in performing more effective functions outside the classroom. In addition to this the
mentioned portfolio will highlight the supportive services of Waltham international college.
These services offers the valuable resources to the student in order to enhance their credibility to
perform well in their academic life as well as also support in fulfilling their career needs (Lane,
and et.al, 2019).
MAIN BODY
Student support services offered by Waltham International College
The above mentioned college offers the various support service to their students in order
to offer more diverse and effective learning environment. In regard to this below are the brief
discussion of these services that deployed by the Waltham intentional college in its eduction
campus.
 Student Advice- The mentioned college offers the complete support to their student in
on reagrd to the wide range of non academic issues. They developed the student welfare
team that ensures to provides the complete solutions to the student in regard to their non
academic issues. It includes the one on one appointment through which student can
consult their complex issues such as money management issues, funding enquires etc.
 Library resources- The mentioned college offers the access of wide range of books,
specialist material and other journal articles which is necessary to performing the
effective learning processes in their studiers. In addition to this special library discounts
are also offered by the college that helps the student to get the optimum benefits on a
justified prices (Roberts,2018). The library is accessible 24 hours a day in which student
can use their services according to their comforts. Moreover, the library also offers the
complete support of experts and other professional staff that helps the student in getting
the reliable resourcses that they want from the library. These experts and library staff

ensures that student get all the study regarded material in the library. For that they
consistently review their books stocks, e resources that need to be deploy in the library.
 Language support to students- The mentioned college also offers the dedicated English
courses, that assist the student in order to learn the academic English. It is analysed that
there are major difference In the English that learned in the school or colleges is way
much differ the language use in higher eduction. In addition to this, to develop the
efficiency in the student these productive English courses helps the student to develop the
relatability with the courses that offer by the mentioned institute. Moreover, in order to
offer the complete support to the student the mentioned institute delver Effective
admission team that works in the mentioned specialist area to support to the student t in
regard to their academic and non academic issues (Timmons, 2020).
 Mental health and well-being program- the mentioned well being program focuses on
offering the complete solution to the difficulties that faced by the student in the college.
There are number of situations that student need an expert advanced and support in order
to resolve their problems that bother them in their learning practice. Hence, in order to
cope up with such issue and offer the support to the concern student the mentioned
college deployed the counsellor that ensures to provides the effective solution that can
form more strong mindset in the student. In addition to this the derived service is free for
all the student which is part of institute. There are number of exercise and sessions that
herlps in healing the issues of student.
Reflection
All the above services that offer by the mentioned college plays one of the vital role in
the student life. It facilitate me in order to complete my assignment more effectively. By the use
of library resources I were able to perform my course related researches easily, as I able to gather
all the informations from the one place. In addition to this there were several times when I faced
the difficulties in regard to find the relatable academic stuffs. But with the help of experts and
staff I get the access of regarded content. Moreover the student advisory also helped me in regard
to my academic issues. In addition to this, as I need the finance support during my applied
course. Hence, by the proper guidance and support of the advisory solved my concern issues on
time. There was a time when I faced the mental pressure and not in the state of focusing on

studies. But with the help of counsellor and their sessions therapy assisted me in order to resolve
my issues (Caballero, 2020).
Recommendations
The above mentioned portfolio highlighted that the mentioned institutes already
developed the vast number of student support services that assisting them in offers effective
services. In addition to this there are some recommendations that can be used by the mentioned
institutes to better improvise their services.
 The mentioned institution need to deploy digital technologies regard to the student
requirement. It will help the student to get more effective e resources as well as can
perform researches more efficiently according to their module requirement.
 By the implication of more therapy sessions such as yoga classes mind exercise can assist
the student to form more strong mindset
CONCLUSION
From the analysis of above portfolio various services has highlighted such as library
resources, student advisory, well being support etc. hence these supportive services clearly
highlighted that the mentioned institutes offering the reliable resources to their student that
assisting in focus on their learning programs even more better. In addition to this, the mentioned
institutes formed the student advisory, that focuses on solving the non academic issues.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Lane, and et.al, 2019. Dimensions of student success: a framework for defining and evaluating
support for learning in higher education. Higher Education Research &
Development, 38(5), pp.954-968.
Roberts,2018. Professional staff contributions to student retention and success in higher
education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 40(2), pp.140-153.
Timmons, 2020. Creating a Pipeline: Engineering Success of African American Female Students
in STEM Using Student Support Services and Faculty Support at Community Colleges
in Massachusetts. Available at SSRN 3639584.
Caballero, 2020. Higher Education: Factors and Strategies for Student Retention. HETS Online
Journal, 10(2), pp.1D-1D.