Student Life at Oxford

Some ideas to help students respond differently to their anxiety about needing to be perfect.

A conversation between Oxford University Counsellors about ways in which perfectionism impacts on the student experience.

This podcast explores some of the emotional challenges faced by international students.

This podcast focuses on the exam itself, just prior to it, and what might help you to feel prepared.

In this section there are some useful reminders of how to start planning for revision by taking stock of knowledge to date , choices of topic and starting to plan and timetable your revision.

This is for any student who is preparing for taking exams at any point in their course. The podcast aims to start to identify ways of achieving a balanced approach to thinking about exams.

This second podcast invites you to engage in two brief, meditative and compassionate exercises to further develop your inner resource of self-compassion.

This introductory podcast explores the concept of developing your inner resource of self-compassion and the skills required for this.

This podcast considers how personal difficulties arise and manifest amongst otherwise successful students.

This podcast offers food for thought to students who are feeling torn between suspending their studies in response to a setback - for example a period of mental or physical illness - or carrying on with their studies. By Maureen Freed.