{"id":161,"date":"2013-06-10T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:51:09","slug":"how-to-create-a-high-quality-personal-statement-for-university-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-create-a-high-quality-personal-statement-for-university-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Create A High Quality Personal Statement For University Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my responsibility for the BSc Computer Science course at Birmingham City University, I get the opportunity to review a lot of Personal Statements submitted by students looking to join the course.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to students at Solihull College about how to best present themselves for successfully university entry and the slides are included below. The slides are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThomasLancaster\">hosted on the SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/22740658?rel=0\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I do recommend that students put the time in to identify their skills and experience and to relate these to the courses that they want to take.<\/p>\n<p>This will help them to obtain a valuable and worthwhile position to study a Computing or IT subject at Birmingham City University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my responsibility for the BSc Computer Science course at Birmingham City University, I get the opportunity to review a lot of Personal Statements submitted by students looking to join the course. 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