From handling nerves to keeping your audience’s attention
These workshops will improve your speaking skills

Monday 23rd February 2026
Poster design in PowerPoint
Want to design professional quality posters to grab your audience’s attention? This workshop shows you how to create effective academic posters, ensuring information is readable from an appropriate distance.
Bay Campus
Monday 23rd February 2026
10:00 - 12:00
digital skills, PowerPoint, poster design
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Tuesday 24th February 2026
Essay Writing: Step by Step
Build confidence in your academic writing. This 6-week, hands-on course is designed for students who want to master the academic essay. Learn each stage of the writing process—from understanding your assignment to submitting a polished piece. Develop your own essays in a supportive, workshop-style environment.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 24th February 2026 (Session 3 of 6)
12:00 - 13:30
Reading Skills
This course will introduce you to different strategies to improve your vocabulary and reading comprehension. You will learn ways to improve your reading in English, using academic and news text sources.
Bay Campus
Tuesday 24th February 2026 (Session 5 of 5)
14:00 - 15:00
study skills, English language support, academic reading
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Thursday 26th February 2026
The Rules of Differentiation
This workshop will explore differentiation from first principles, to help you understand how to use the quotient, chain and Product rules. It also addresses how to find the maximum and minimum values of functions.
Bay Campus
Thursday 26th February 2026
12:00 - 13:00
Pronunciation
The course is designed for students whose first language is not English. It will allow you to practise different English sounds and sentence stresses, to make your speech more fluent and natural and help you be better understood.
Bay Campus
Thursday 26th February 2026 (Session 5 of 8)
12:00 - 13:00
English pronunciation, English sounds, sentence stress
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Basic Integration
In this workshop we will revise and practice basic integration, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and the most common standard Integrals.
Bay Campus
Thursday 26th February 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Academic Writing in English
This course best suits students whose first language is not English. You will learn and develop skills in written academic English. The course covers the overall purpose and structure of academic writing, plus elements of academic grammar and vocabulary to improve your writing.
Bay Campus
Thursday 26th February 2026 (Session 5 of 10)
14:00 - 15:00
writing, grammar


