The Add+Vantage Scheme. As a fresher you will hear a lot about it, how it is the star of the Coventry University syllabus, how it can improve your diploma in ways other universities can’t, how it can help you enhance your employability and so on. Very true, the scheme is important and it just adds more skills to what you gain through your degree. The scheme has been regarded as one of the biggest initiatives in the UK and lets students choose from over 60 courses (wow!!) and involves the University, the city and the various companies around Coventry. I know it is hard to choose your Add+Vantage when you have so many options. What is it that you are looking for? What would be best for you? Well, you don’t have to choose something related to your course, that is the beauty of it. You can go for something that can help you on your career path, something that you find interesting or something that you want to explore. For example, I’m studying Spanish and English and I have taken as an Add+Vantage module Project Management. It has nothing to do with my course, but I think that together with my language skills it will help me gain a job as a project manager.

The Add+Vantage module is chosen each year and it has some restrictions though – only one per year, some courses and Add+Vantage modules combinations are not allowed, some need you to have taken a similar module in the previous year so think about how you want to tackle things. So if you are a 2^nd year student with an Add+Vantage in Doing Business in Emerging Global Markets (what a title) I’ll be seeing you there.

Irina Griga, BA Spanish and English