Study Skills and Support
So you found a course you want to study, got through all the paperwork of enrolment and attended your first classes, but now, you are finding some challenges.
The following resources and workshops may help you get the most from your time at Kangan Institute.
Study Skills
Kangan Institute offers resources and links to a variety of study skills. We can help you with:
- Better meetings
- Bibliographies and referencing
- Effective listening
- Finding information
- Memory retention
- Multiple-choice exams
- Note making
- Reading effectively
- Speaking to the group
- Study environment
- Surviving exams
- Time organisation
- Web search engines
- Writing an essay
- Writing reports
Links
- Kangan Institute - Learning Tips
Our Library and Learning Centre has a great collection of information sheets on study skills. - The University of Melbourne
You can download study sheets and check out the links to other useful sites. - Virginia Polytechnic Institute
A great set of resources on study skills for you to download. - Study Skills (finding your learning style quiz)
Support
Workshops: Semester 2, 2010
The following workshops will be offered in Semester 2 at our Broadmeadows campus for enrolled students.
| Return to study | Thursday August 5, 2010 | 3pm to 4pm, Room LLC-eCave |
|---|---|---|
| Time management | Thursday August 12, 2010 | 3pm to 4pm, Room LLC-eCave |
| Motivation | Thursday August 19, 2010 | 3pm to 4pm, Room LLC-eCave |
| Stress and relaxation techniques | Monday August 23, 2010 | 2pm to 3pm,Room LLC-eCave |
| Managing Exam Anxiety | Monday August 30, 2010 | 2pm to 3pm, Room LLC-eCave |
Workshops are held throughout the year, depending on demand.
Phone (03) 9279 2511 or email counseller@kangan.edu.au for further information.
Our counsellors can also provide coaching in:
- Self esteem
- Goal setting
- Creating your own study environment
- Internet safety
- Managing anger
- Work and course issues which impact your studies
- Anxiety related to public speaking
- Beating anxiety
- Overcoming depression and grief
- Increasing emotional Intelligence
- Problem solving and coping strategies
- Developing a positive mindset
- Understanding self
- Friendships
Phone (03) 9279 2511 or email counseller@kangan.edu.au to make an appointment.
Links
For detailed resources regarding wellbeing, the following web links may be useful.
- Better Health Channel - Stress management
- Kangan Institute - Time management
- Exam anxiety
- Depression
- Anxiety
NOTE: Kangan Institute provides a range of support services for students undertaking government-subsidised courses. Support for students undertaking other courses, such as short courses or fee-for-service courses, will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Some students may be required to contribute to the costs of additional support including learning and disability support.

