I am a 3rd year student at the University, and would almost certainly not be still be here ready to sit my final exams if it wasn't for my student advisor. Her advice and understanding has been invaluable. When I first went to student support I was ready to leave my degree due to stress and hardship I was under.
I had a lot of stress due to financial problems, but was able to alleviate some of these, and later secure funding for a repeat year that I would have found impossible to do otherwise. Throughout my degree I have suffered with panic attacks and anxiety, and my student advisor has been there whenever I have needed to provide advice and support, as well as guidance with any paperwork I've had to fill in for mitigating circumstances. I truly feel I would not have had the resolve to carry on without the help I was given.
There is no price that can be put on the help that is provided by the current student advisors, and I feel very sorry for any future students that will have to cope without the service, should the planned cuts go ahead. I feel that the student advisors are vital to the University support system, and that to compromise this will leave many students isolated and forced to leave degrees that they could have otherwise completed, had they been given support appropriate to their needs.
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