You are just arrived to Dundee and you are completely lost? You need a duvet, a pillow, some plates, some cutleries, some food… and you don’t know where buy all of that? Then, this guide is for you! In this guide I’m going to give you some advices to help you to make your installation as smooth as possible.

First of all, I’m going to present you the functioning of the student accommodation.

There are 4 accommodations: Meadowside, Victoria Chambers, Parker House and Lyon’s Street. In each accommodation you have several flats with several bedrooms in each flat. Each flat have 1 or 2 kitchens for all the students of the flat with table, chairs, fridges, freezers, sink, hotplate, oven, microwave, cupboards, dishwasher… You have to buy your own plates, cutleries and kitchen utensils. Kitchens are cleaned once a week by cleaners. Bedrooms are composed of one little bed, one desk, one chair, one cupboard, and one chest of drawers. You need to buy sheets, duvet and pillow for your bed. You can choose a bedroom with your own shower room, or the shower room can as well be in common. Your shower room is also cleaned but not every week it depends of the accommodation, so you must buy some household products too.

So, as you can see you have to buy lots of things when you arrive in the accommodation. And I know it’s difficult because you don’t know the city so you don’t know where you can buy all of that. That’s why I’m going to give you some advices.

First, for kitchen utensils and household products you can go in the mall Wellgate where there are lots of shop where everything cost £1 so it’s really interesting. There is also this kind of shop in the city centre.

Wellgate Shopping Centre

Then, to buy food you can go to Tesco which is a supermarket like in France and it’s not very expensive. There is also M&S which is bigger so you have more choice but it’s a little bit more expensive. The Iceland shop in the Wellgate is well to buy frozen foods because you have lots of choice.

To finish, you can go to the Primark to buy your sheets, duvet, pillow and other household linens. Primark is a big shop situated in the shopping centre Overgate which sell also clothes and which is really cheap! In the Overgate there are many other clothes shops as H&M, New Look and Topshop, so it’s a good place to shop!

Overgate Shopping Centre

I’ve tried to give you the best advices for your move. But if you have any other questions, feel free to post a comment and I will try to answer at best!

Emilie CAILLETEAU

If you are thinking about studying at Abertay University next year you might have already looked at the modules catalogue. It is kind of hard to figure out what your courses will be like only with a small description, that’s why I decided to present you the modules that I am studying. In France I am in L3, in Abertay I have a module from the second year and two from third year because here students start since the first year to really study accounting. In Abertay you only need to take three modules to validate your semester.

• Financial Accounting :

This module is from the second year programme, I am very happy that I took it because otherwise I would have had a hard time to manage my second accounting module. For this module I have one hour of lecture and two hours tutorial, however we are only 10 students in this module so the lecture and the tutorial look the same.
For this course as for every other one I am studying here the lecturers are really organized and they show you the module schedule on the first class so you are fully aware of what you are going to study.

As you can see we studied consolidation during the first half of the semester and now we are going to start to look at smaller subjects.

In this modules you have to give back an essay which counts for 30% of your grade for the semester, this year the topic is ” Integrated Reporting “.

Next week ( week 7 ) is feedback week so you can go to the class and ask your questions which is great because we had our first mock exam this week.

• International Financial Accounting :

For this module the lecturer is the same that for Financial accounting, it is the rest of the first module. I am not sure I would have understood this module without the first one.

We change topic every two weeks which makes this module very interesting. The final exam counts for 100% of your grade.

For those two modules the textbook is the same, I would recommend buying it if you want to work at home because you may have some lacks of knowledge on some of those topics.

Even if you will find a lot of informations and exercises on your intranet.

• Corporate Finance :

This module is the best of those three in my opinion. The lecturer is really good, he explains every concept very clearly so it makes it very easy to understand.
In this module like in every modules you feel like the lecturer really wants you to succeed. At the end of the lectures as on the end of the tutorials you have to take a ” clicker ” and press a number between 1 and 4, 1 means you perfectly understood everything and 4 means you didn’t understand anything.

This module is very interesting and because the lecturer used to work in banks he gives you real life situation to illustrate a concept, it makes the module less theoretical and way more captivating.

I hope you will find this post helpful.

See you next week

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