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Careers Advice Centre
Apart from giving individual advice, the career advisers run regular workshops on topics like postgraduate study, how to put together a CV and covering letter, and improving your application and interview techniques. We have a large career library with information and a database on a very broad range of jobs, employers and opportunities for further study, both in the UK and overseas.
Counselling and advice
The Counselling Service provides you with the opportunity to receive help with any problems you may be experiencing. If you are feeling lonely, homesick, anxious, depressed or under stress, or experiencing problems with your studies, then do come and see us. We will try to help you with any of these problems.
The Advisory Service provides a comprehensive service to all students offering information, help and advice on a wide range of different subjects including external problems involving welfare rights, financial difficulties, legal questions, Home Office problems, and also with internal problems with the university's procedures and regulations. We have established many contacts with outside agencies so that, where necessary, specialist referrals can be made.
ALL CONSULTATIONS WITH STAFF OF THE COUNSELLING AND ADVISORY SERVICE ARE IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE
For an appointment call 020 8552 3071
Health care
The Institute encourages students to take responsibility for their own health.
For general care under the National Health Service (NHS), students studying in the UK for more than six months must register with a General Practitioner (GP) in the area in where they live. When the students are registered with GP, they will receive NHS cards. Once registered you can consult the GP free of charge. If the students are not registered, they may have problems seeing a doctor when medical treatment becomes necessary. The doctor must be close to where they live, because once they are registered, the GP agrees to visit them if an emergency arises.There is a Nurse available to give help and advice on medical matters.
If your course of study is for less than six months, you will not be entitled to NHS hospital treatment, except in emergencies. GPs may agree to treat you for free, but this will usually be limited to urgent treatment that cannot be delayed until you return home. You will have to pay for any other treatment as a private patient. It is therefore very important that you take out medical insurance for the duration of your visit to the UK.
Unless you hold an exemption certificate you will have to pay for medical prescriptions, eye tests and dental treatment. You may be eligible for exemption. To apply for an exemption certificate please collect forms HC1 and HC11 from any of the Health Centres.
Sports and fitness
BITE students are eligible to use the University of East London Sports and Fitness Facility.
Barking Campus - The Sports Centre includes a swimming pool, two gymnasia, a squash court, and four tennis courts. You can swim, canoe and do sub-aqua-or for the drylanders, badminton, table-tennis, keep fit, aerobics, dance, step, circuit-training, body pump, boxercise, volleyball, basket-ball, and indoor football are among the sports offered. Students on Sports or Fitness courses will have practical sessions here.
Off Campus - You can play soccer, rugby, hockey or join one of the options in golf, sailing, windsurfing, skiing or riding. If you want to train seriously for sports, we've a wide range of facilities, including resistance training machines, Olympic free weight systems, and aerobic training machines. Should you need to, you can visit the sports injury and massage clinics too. There are also UVA sunbeds and a sauna room for those who would prefer to relax!
Docklands Campus - A spacious new fitness facility with the latest training equipment is available in the Royals Fitness Suite, which is situated at the east end of the Campus. A full range of aerobic and resistance/ training equipment and a selection of free weights is available, as are inductions and personal fitness programmes. Students are also welcome to use the sports facilities available at Barking Campus. The Docklands Campus overlooks the new UK Olympic rowing course in the Royal Docks. This campus recruits students for the UEL rowing team, and specialist training is given at the new Regatta Centre.
Stratford Campus - The Stratford Campus has a new fitness and training facility 'Fitness on the Green' where a range of aerobic and resistance training equipment is available. The nearest Sports Centre is in the Atherton Suite which is just a short walk from the Campus. Exercise classes are available there and it has two swimming pools, vapour suites, badminton and five aside courts. Students are also welcome to use the sports facilities at the Barking Campus.
Visit the Sports Centre webpages for opening times and membership information.
Accomodation
 We have engaged in partnership with local estate and letting agents to find high quality accommodation, this is done by the student support centre. The accommodation is furnished and decorated to a high standard. The accommodation is self-catering, but you can always eat in BITE's refectory or snack bar, or visit local restaurants or take-aways. Our Student Support Centre on Campus is open throughout the year for providing services on accomodation. We look after students who would like to live in accommodation we own and we also keep lists of local landlords and landladies who let either individual rooms or complete properties. For more information please contact our Student Support Centre at our hotline number 020 8552 3071.
Disability service:
This service is accessed through our partnership with University of East London and can be found here.
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