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Guidance for your time abroad

On Arrival

Remember....

  • Remember to enrol at Swansea
  • Complete your start of placement documents
  • Update your Swansea University intranet account with your new address and contact details. This can be done here.
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During your Stay

Staying in touch

Your Faculty will confirm the frequency and method of contact they will expect during your time abroad. Refer to the Faculty Appendix of the Go Global handbook for more information. You should also notify your Faculty and the Go Global team as soon as any issues arise.

In line with Academic Regulations, you should refer to the Attendance Monitoring Policy and ensure you follow the guidelines for Study and Work Abroad placements carefully (section 6). The onus is on students to maintain contact with their Faculty whilst abroad. Student Route students are subject to additional requirements, outlined in the above policy.

The Go Global team will be in touch regularly via your Swansea University email address, throughout your time abroad so please ensure you check this regularly.

 

@CAMPUSLIFE AND STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES

As you are enrolled at Swansea you can access the Student Support services. Contact them direct or your Go Global contact can refer you.

  • Money@campuslife - Offers guidance on all student money-related issues. 
  • Welfare@campuslife - Offers support for students experiencing welfare issues.
  • International@campuslife - Provides information to International Students on non-academic matters. 
  • Faith@campuslife - Offers support and advice on faith, culture, gender, or sexual orientation.
  • Wellbeing and Disability Office - Offers support and advice to students with disabilities, medical conditions, or learning difficulties, and helps to promote students' own inner wellbeing.

Culture Shock

You may experience culture shock, while you are abroad. This is when the differences in your new environment become more disorientating than interesting and you may experience homesickness, sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, boredom, and hostility to the host culture. This is a perfectly normal way to feel; this will pass in time. Here are some things that you can do to help:

  • Talk to people about how you’re feeling
  • Contact the Go Global team for support
  • Keep in touch with friends and family at home but remember to continue developing new support networks in your host country
  • Go out and about with friends and socialise

Swansea University Code of Conduct

Students are bound by Swansea University’s rules and regulations and Code of Conduct whilst on any study or work abroad programme Breaches of these regulations may lead to disciplinary procedures being taken. For further information, please visit the MyUni webpage.

Disciplinary offences are unjustifiable or unlawful actions, which offend, harm, or damage members of the University, the public, guests of the University, or its property, activities, or reputation. They include actions that interfere, or have the potential to interfere, with the proper functioning of the University or any member of it pursuing his/her work or study.