 Ka tira, tēnā tātou, nei rangamii ki a koutou katoa, kwa hau mai ki te Wharewananga o Tāmaki Makaurau, no mai haere mai. Morina, ko Meriana tuki to ku ingoa, he uri tēnei no te Wharetapū o Ngāpuhi, anotera o waka. Ko au te kaiwhakurunga Māori ki konei. Morina everyone, thank you so much for being here. My name is Meriana. I'm a Schools Advisor with the Schools Partnership Office. I'm lucky enough to be a part of a wider team that travel around the country promoting a further education to many of your sons, daughters throughout the country. And this part of the morning is just a bit of information about university. So essentially at a university you are currently on our campus. We have a number of different campuses. The Grafton campus is up near the Auckland City Hospital. We've also got an Epsom campus, which is at the foot of Maungafo or Mount Eden, which is where education and social workers taught, as well as sport, health and physical education. We've also got a Tāmaki campus. We've got satellite campuses out of MIT and Ōtara. Another education campus in Whāngarei, and then this is our city campus. On those campuses we have faculties, which group together common subjects and degrees, similar to a department at your school. So many of you will have a science department and in some cases a PE department and an English department. These departments or subject areas teach courses. So at this university we call them courses. And as part of those courses you will be required to attend lectures and in some cases tutorials and labs. These are the eight faculties that you can study at the University of Auckland and these are the degrees that fall under them. So basically the Bachelor of Arts is more about your liberal arts, your social sciences and your languages. Then you've got the Business School, which is the home of the Bachelor of Commerce and also property. It's important to note that you do not need a degree to sell a house. You need to set things like land evaluation and legislation. Then you've got the CHI or the Creative Arts and Industries, which is where architecture, urban planning, music, fine arts and dance is. You also have the Faculty of Education and Social Work, which is obviously for those of you who are looking to become a teacher, a social worker or do things like health promotion within schools and PE teaching. We also have the Bachelor of Engineering, which is a four-year degree with built-in honours. The Bachelor of Laws which must be conjointed with another degree and the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. The last and our largest faculty is the Faculty of Science, which holds the largest numbers of majors. A conjoint programme. So essentially a conjoint programme is if I wanted to do a Bachelor of Science and then I decided I'd also like to do a Bachelor of Arts and I did them one after the other, it would take me six years to complete them. If I conjoint it, it will take me four. So double qualified in a shorter amount of time. For obvious reasons you cannot conjoint everything, like medicine as an example, mostly because it would cost you a lot and also it would take you a very long time to complete this. You also can't conjoint things like education because more often than not in your first year you are already shadowing and on placement. Entry requirements. Now this is really just for those parents in the room because we understand that your children don't want to explain to you exactly what they need to do to get into university in some cases. So very briefly I'm just going to explain mostly so that parents have an understanding of what your children should be attaining while they're still at high school. Entry requirements. There are four steps. It's important to note that not all four steps apply. I will be speaking on both all entry requirements so NCEA, CIE or Cambridge and also IB. So step one for university entrance NCEA. This is what it looks like. So essentially at level one, which is year 11, students need the ten numeracy credits. At level two, year 12, they need ten literacy credits, five credits in reading, five credits in writing and at level three they need a minimum of 60 credits including 13 subjects or 13 credits and three approved subjects. The university has nothing to do with what is or isn't approved. If they have questions about the subjects that they are currently studying they must go back to the careers advisor or the school. This is university entrance for those students who are currently doing Cambridge examinations. So you need maths at a degree or higher for your IGCSE. You need English at an E-grade or higher for AS levels and then at AS or A-levels you need 120 points on the UCAS tariff. Next is step two. This is how we calculate rank scores. So this is specific to how we calculate rank scores here at the University of Auckland. So basically we take 80 of your best credits from level three and we weigh them by what they're worth. So if I was a year 13 shouldn't this year and 80 of my best credits are all at achieved level 80 times two is going to give me a rank score of 160 which means that I could get into a Bachelor of Arts. I would be five point short of most of the majors in a Bachelor of Science and there would be no way that I could get into engineering. If I wanted to get into engineering with that rank score I need to be getting those excellences and merits. Does everyone understand? And it's only level three credits. This is how we calculate rank scores for those students who are currently completing Cambridge. So we take your UCAS tariff across the best six subjects. As you can see your A-levels are worth more than your AS levels. And it's similar to how you calculate the rank scores for NCEA. And that's step two. If that is all you require and you get University entrance, step one and you attain the rank score, step two and that is all you require you will be offered a place. Same with IB. Only these six degrees have subject requirements so this is step three. I'll start from the bottom. So for anyone who's interested in studying engineering basically you need all of the external credits in physics and calculus. Health sciences and nursing as well as commerce, property and architecture mean that you need to have table A and table B subjects. This is table A and this is table B. So anyone who's interested in architecture so long as you have one table A and one table B you will meet those subject requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Property so long as you have three subjects from either side so you can have one from table A and two from table B so long as you have three that fall within that table. Also, so step one is University entrance step two is rank score and these six degrees have subject requirements. If you meet all three of those requirements again by law we must offer you a place. This is table A and table B for those students who are doing Cambridge and this is step four. So essentially these are the creative arts and education and social work so for things like music and dance you will be required to complete an audition but it's not like X Factor where they stand you up in front of them and attempt to rip you to shreds. Essentially if you're going for music then you can submit you can either come in for an audition performing or somebody performing something that you've composed if you're going for dance they usually try and get you to come here they teach you a set at the end of that set then they contact you following that. There's also a written statement for urban planning just to kind of get a gauge on what you already know about it and then the portfolio which can be uploaded online is basically I'll definitely advise for those of you who are interested in fine arts and architecture when it comes to your portfolio if you haven't already submitted it to go to the workshops later on today. Also for education and social work in some cases there is an interview just to make sure you're not crazy and also please check so there has been some miscommunication with the academic English language requirement so it has only recommended that students come to us with the 17 English credits and it can be a mixture of level 2 and level 3 some schools have made it compulsory we will still take the students in saying that in place of your one options or what we call general education course here at the University of Auckland you will be required to do an academic English writing course just because I know myself that many of them don't understand how to reference things and have an understanding of that so just in place of that you will be required to do an English language course so very quickly how to apply it's really straightforward for those of you who have not yet applied everything is done online here's some university terminology for you I'll start from the bottom again at this school students will have four terms at university we have two semesters the best way for me to describe it is using an NCEA student as an example points are almost like credits so these are the credits slash points that you need to attain in order to pass to get to the next level general education is your one opportunity to do one options course outside of the faculty that you study in so elective under the same umbrella general education outside of the umbrella in which you study it another terminology is general education general education outside of the umbrella in which you study it another terminology that I always like to explain to many students is that they don't have a good understanding of major and minor so if a student wants to study a Bachelor of Science and they want to major in something and minor in something else essentially so in one year in a single degree you have to complete four courses if you are majoring the majority of your courses are going to come from that subject so if I wanted to major in compside my five courses would be the majority and my minor could be in physics so that's the major and the minor obviously if you double major it's equal amounts of both these are some of the things that you can study with your general education there was Planet Stars and Galaxies that you could study Art Appreciation where you go around to all the art galleries and write about what you think that they were trying to create this is an example of what a timetable might look like I can tell you now for anyone who is interested in studying biomedical sciences I'm not telling you this to scare you there's not a lot of white and the white comes in at about lunchtime and that's about it also for many of you who have travelled really far I do come from a wider team and many of us if we haven't already been into your schools we will be coming and we will also be doing course planning and course advice to help you to build these timetables so that next year hopefully when you choose to come and study with us the transition to enrolling yourself is easier so it's very different we're not going to give you a timetable that says at 9 o'clock you must go to history and at 10 o'clock you must go to geography you must actually create this timetable for yourself and it's our job to help with that transition so if you haven't seen anyone from our team just yet make sure you go to those course planning sessions this is just some of the fun stuff we have a lot of academic support there is also life outside the lecture theatre that comes in the form of orientation week so there is a lot of things happening at o-week there's a lot of free stuff there's a lot of free food so find all of those there's some concerts there's some comedy club nights sports as well that you can go to into faculty sports so if you play sports to represent the region that you come from or even New Zealand you can continue to do that you can also represent the hall of residence that you live in, the faculty that you study in and also the university at university games this is just a photo that I found but you can represent them in things like there's tennis, there's even futsal there's like ultimate frisbee there are a whole heap of things that you can compete in every year we have a great waka ama race it's so popular that we run out of waka so essentially what that is is a 12k paddle to rangitoto which is the volcano out in the Waitemata students must run to the summit run back down and then paddle the last 12 back so those of that get an all expenses trip pay to Hawaii they are currently there competing in the Queen Lilio Kalani which is a 30mong paddle for the last two years engineering has won and they came second in the men's last year in Hawaii so if any of you paddle you're more than welcome to start your own team up and hopefully take the title of engineering the clubs expo is a great way for you to meet like minded people so at high school for those of you who are still high school students you might find it hard to find a lot of like minded people the benefits of the clubs here is that there are a whole heap the most popular club that we have currently on campus is the meat club eating meat club they were created in opposition to the vegetarians club and basically every few weeks they have a barbeque so sausage sizzles and stuff like that if you pay to be a part of their meat club you get to skip the line and they give you a t-shirt and they also text you they're like hey we're in the quad having a barbeque so if you're in the meat club you can skip the whole line and usually it goes further because free food and so that's one of the clubs second to the meat club is the dessert club where they send you vouchers to go to places like some of the clubs but I mean also if you have I don't know a passion for Justin Bieber you can create your own club as well these are some of the clubs that we have here on campus I'm just going to change that so obviously as you can see there are a whole heap of clubs that you can join there are cultural clubs there are snowboarding clubs and walking clubs and you can join more than one it's your way to find people who are like minded also support services so there are approximately 42,000 students here at the University of Auckland don't worry they're not all here at the same time but basically it's not like when you're in high school if you need the help you actually have to be proactive about coming to us and seeking it there are people who get paid to help you so I'm not just talking academics as well we also have a number of councillors and doctors so the academic side there are academic advisers and all of the faculties and then there are also councillors and a whole heap of learning centres there's also the careers hub as well the careers team so for those of you who are looking for opportunities while you're studying there are a number of ways that you can get internships every few weeks I also get emails asking if I know students who are interested in or who are currently completing this major and would be interested in a placement at ASB Bank so they will help you with writing your CV and cover letters they will also interview you as well if you haven't ever been interviewed before this is just a list so that you can see so even the support stretches out to all of the halls of residences as well so you don't have to worry if you're in the halls of residences about not being supportive although if you aren't going into the halls of residences again you are welcome to all of the services that you see behind me as well this is just a screenshot that I took from the careers hub which essentially is the necessary steps that they can help with to get you placements also for those of you who are interested in travelling we have a 360 abroad programme which is usually done in your second year these are only the countries that we send students to there are I think like 90 plus universities that we have partnerships with where you can go and study in your second year the major benefits of this is that you will not be paying international student fees you will pay exactly what you pay here to go to the University of Southern California finally this is my last slide basically this is the information for all of the faculties so if you are struggling with an application or you have a few questions my advice would be to take this information down also if you wanted additional support or some guidance on the majors or the double major that you are looking at going into this would be a good way or this would be a good contact for you to make contact with other than that thank you all so much for being here I understand the weather is not great outside but have a lovely day and we are here to answer any questions you might have