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Distance, college and care-experienced students

Not everyone takes the same path to university, but we're here to support you, whatever your journey. Find out how we can help if you're coming from college, a distance learner, or are a care-experienced student.

 
 

Coming from college

University can be challenging and exciting. You'll be expected to stretch yourself both as a learner and as an individual. There may be larger class sizes and less interaction with staff than at college, and there is more emphasis on independent learning, so it might feel a little impersonal at first. This can be quite hard, especially if you are starting university in the second or third year, but you’ll soon find you meet others with common interests and settle into your new environment.

Before you come, you could:

We would encourage you to attend the induction workshops offered during Induction week, as these are full of useful information to help you settle into your course. 

College Outreach

You may have met one of our College Outreach team during your time at college or when you first applied to ENU. They run a series of events and activities to help students with the transition to university study. To find out more please see here.

Academic Skills

The Academic Skills team can help you to understand how best to approach your university studies. Our advisers work with students at every level and programme of study, whatever their previous experience or aspirations.

Visit the Academic Skills pages.

 
 
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Care-experienced learners

We are committed to supporting students from care-experienced backgrounds. If you have previously been cared for by a local authority, whether in residential care, foster care, cared for at home or cared for by friends or relatives, we may have already contacted you if you indicated this on your UCAS form before joining Edinburgh Napier.

If you didn't let us know before arriving, it's not too late to get in touch. Our Student Experience and Retention Advisers, Caroline Fraser and Jenny Smith, are the University's named contacts for care experienced students. You can contact them at keepontrack@napier.ac.uk.

Learn more about the support we offer care-experienced students
 
 

Distance learners

Even if you're not on campus, there are still lots of helpful resources you can make use of to assist you in your studies. 

IT information

You can access all of the University’s online services including email and Moodle via My Account.

Before you start to use the online services you will need to complete the following steps:

  1. Set your password, register for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the self-service password reset service – instructions for completing this process will be sent to your personal email address.
  2. Upload your photo to the Photo Manager to create your digital Edinburgh Napier University student card.
  3. Work through the Moodle module: Introduction to Computing and Library for Off Campus Students.

Further information about all our services can be found on the IT Support pages.

Library information

You can use LibrarySearch to search for books and ebooks, as well as find online journal articles and databases.

Depending on your programme, you may not visit our libraries in person. However, many of our library resources are available to you from anywhere in the world. You can access hundreds of thousands of ebooks and millions of journal articles online through our libraries.

If you are in the UK but can't visit our campuses, you can also register for our postal loans service. This allows you to request books online and we will post books to your home or workplace using Royal Mail.

Before you start, complete the Introduction to Computing and the Library for Off Campus Students. This will give you the essential information you need to get started, and will take about twenty minutes to work through.

See the Library Off Campus webpages for more information.

If you can't find what you are looking for, email us at induction@napier.ac.uk