Phenomenal success in sport: they’ve won the British Universities Sports Association men’s championships for the last 17 consecutive years and the women’s for the last 19.Added value: Has the UK’s leading sports sponsorship programme offering 75 awards. University claims to be in the top 10 for graduate employment and to have a stellar careers service Sandwich placements available on 80 per cent of degrees Several fully-sponsored degrees. Campus of 216 acres with low-rise buildings plus loads of playing fields and sports facilities Students work hard and play hard. Which means they celebrate sporting achievements with hearty partying.Vital statistics: Most popular subject areas are engineering, sciences and PE.

This is the university for sporty types, but couch potatoes welcome too. Became a university in 1966 following the Robbins report.
Address: One mile west of the town on a greenfield site.Ambience: Sporty. Transformed itself into Loughborough College and then Loughborough College of Technology Was designated a college of advanced technology in 1957. Age: 88

How many lives? Five. Began in 1909 as a small technical institute in Loughborough on the spot where Sainsbury’s is today.

Obviously, once you learn the norms it’s easier to operate in a different culture For example, in Pakistan drinking isn’t acceptable. Lots of people find the fact that people socialise after work in the pub a barrier, but you can go to the pub You don’t have to drink to mix.”the mentor. My attitude was that I was there to give Awad some sort of support, not to say he must do this and he must do that. I tried to give him the sense that he was doing it for himself.

I encouraged him to mix and to have a circle of friends from different backgrounds. It may seem basic or elementary, but it is not for everybody. Lots of people need extra help to come on to the level playing field. We were supposed to spend two and a half days together, but I think we spent about four days in total.

In terms of my personal development, I realised that lots of people need help with things we take for granted: how to prepare a CV, go to an interview, find a job. I was in college for four years and had to look for a job without having any work experience. I thought Awad would benefit from my experience: how to write your CV, how to go to interviews, what kind of things you would be asked and what to expect of the workplace.I worked on a couple of projects with him and he put his CV together on the PC at work. In the case of Awad, who is from the Sudan, we were matched because he was finding it difficult to learn English at the same time as studying accounting and keeping up with responsibilities for his wife and children.At that time I was also studying while working and so I was most probably going through the same sort of thing Second, I wasn’t born in this country either I was born in Pakistan and came over here to college at 18 It was most probably a similar situation to Awad.