Free tuition for life at Cardiff Uni!

I know I pledged to keep this blog for political stuff only, but I’m willing to break my own rule in order to get as much publicity as possible for this new scheme. What you read below is from my personal Tumblr blog.

I’ve recently started working for Cardiff University as an ‘Insider.’ What that means is that I’m opening up my real-life Facebook page to the public, and specifically to 2012 undergraduate applicants.

(c) Cardiff University

Why? To give them a glimpse of what it’s really like to be a Cardiff University student and answering any of their questions (especially the trickier and more studenty ones that they wouldn’t ask an admissions tutor).

This is part of the University’s wider marketing strategy, which also includes a new scheme, launching today, called Thrive.

Thrive, or Ffynnu in Welsh, will give 2012 undergraduate applicants to Cardiff University the chance to progress through a series of online clues, which will eventually lead to one of them (if they get all the clues), winning free tuition for life at Cardiff University. Literally.

The scheme’s website reads:

What would free tuition for life mean to you? Perhaps a PhD in your 30s? An MBA in your 40s? Or how about a Spanish course in your 70s? Maybe the question to ask is: how would you use unlimited free tuition from one of the UK’s top universities to make the world a better place?

Imagine that. Even if you get to the life final (the end stage of the competition – a live final event in Cardiff) but don’t actually win, you’ve already bagged yourself a scholarship towards your time as a Cardiff University student.

(c) Cardiff University

If you’re applying to Cardiff University this year, you can’t afford to miss this opportunity. This ground-breaking competition is open to all applicants for full-time undergraduate study from the UK & EU applying to Cardiff for 2012 entry. To continue through to the final stages you will have to have received, and accepted on a firm basis, an offer for undergraduate study at Cardiff University.

Clues to where you can find the first challenge will appear here from mid December. To register your interest, ready to receive the first clue, go to our registration page. Even if you’re not applying for 2012 entry, you can pre-sign up for 2013 here.

This is an opportunity not to be missed!

By the way, please do feel free to use Facebook’s subscribe function, if you want to get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a real Cardiff University student. Here’s the page where you can subscribe to my colleagues and I and see what it’s like for all of us – all studying different subjects, from different schools, from different places all across the UK, and at different stages of our academic careers – on the Thrive website.

Dros Gymru, CRhJ.