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This blog contains articles or short videos of international students’ life and learning experiences at the university. The content is divided into four categories: the international student experience programme, transition and culture awareness, university life and study, career development, and miscellaneous. The target audience is the international students, expressly but not limited to the pharmacy students.

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Building a sense of belonging
While doing the final-year MPharm student project, I observed and evaluated an International Student Experience Programme (ISEP). This peer-mentoring scheme was designed to support students from China Pharmaceutical University to study in an articulate BSc Clinical...

Unanimous initiative to support international students
When I was doing the MPharm student project in Year Four, I was very honoured to attend a zoom meeting in February 2022 to learn how the academic staff at Monash University helped the transition of international students from their home countries to Australia. The...

Incorporating students’ voices
I am an alumnus of the Manchester MPharm programme. In the final year of my MPharm, I was involved in a research project evaluating an International Student Experience Programme (ISEP) launched in October 2021 to support and help students from China Pharmaceutical...

Raising intercultural awareness among fellow students
During the final year of my MPharm study at the University of Manchester, I was involved in a research project evaluating an International Student Experience Programme (ISEP) launched in October 2021 to support and help students from China Pharmaceutical University...

A warm welcome event to kick off the ISEP
I am Pol, currently a Trainee Pharmacist at Cohens Chemist. I want to share with you an interesting peer-mentoring programme I was involved in during an undergraduate research project at the University of Manchester (UoM). Our Division launched an International...

My journey as a Pharmacy student
I am not exaggerating when I say choosing to study in Manchester is the best decision I have ever made. Studying in Manchester has really broadened my horizons in ways that I could have never possibly imagined. You may be wondering, ‘what makes me say that?’. Well,...

My favourite moment
The highlight for me as a student mentor, was watching the students conduct an interview with a UK based Clinical Pharmacist. My role in this task was to moderate the interview, but the students conducted themselves so well, all I had to do was sit back and listen....

My student mentor experience
From November 2021 to May 2022, I had the pleasure of volunteering as a student-mentor for the International Student Experience Programme. As a student-mentor, I helped lead an online meeting via zoom every month, for a group of first year students enrolled in the BSc...

Reflection from the student partner
Hello! My name is Jenna Boyd, and I am a current 2nd year Psychology student at the University of Manchester. For the last academic year, I have been working as a student co-ordinator as part of the International Student Experience Programme (ISEP). My main...

Building an inclusive and diverse community
The pharmacy programmes at the University of Manchester continuously promote the widening participation agenda and equality and diversity initiatives. The programmes recruit students with diverse cultural backgrounds and international students each year. We regard...
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