Following on from last week's interview, here our Welfare officer discusses what makes DBS unique, choosing colleges and provides tips for exam times that we offer our students to help them maximise their results.

What makes DBS stand out amongst other colleges, in your opinion?

I think DBS has lots of great things going for it;

-Our location; you can’t get more city centre than us!

-Our staff; the lecturers in DBS are so passionate and enthusiastic about their subjects

-Our Sports and Societies; call me biased but I think that we offer students a great extra-curricular experience with everything from badminton to basketball and psychology to skydiving

What advice do you give to anyone choosing their college this year?

Chose to study something you enjoy; that’s the advice I was given when I was picking my course and I’m glad I followed it! Over the next three or four years you will have a love/hate relationship with your course and ultimately it will be your passion for the subject and the dedication and support from your college that will get you through.

Finally – you deal with students all the time; tips for exam period?

Another piece of advice that I was given before the LC was to avoid doing post-mortems after the exam. Talking about what question you did, or what answer you got won’t change how well you did so why upset/frustrate yourself. Once you put your pen down at the end of the exam be happy that you gave it your best shot and move on to the next one or to enjoying the summer.

Caitriona McGrattan works as part of our student services team who cater exclusively for students needs. One of the department’s main roles is the facilitation of personal and academic development. To learn more about our Student Services department and our undergraduate progammes at DBS, please visit website. Alternatively you can contact the admissions office by email admissions@dbs.ie or by calling 01 4177 500.

With the application facility for the Bachelor of Business in Retail Management at Dublin Business School in conjunction with Lidl now open students have the ideal opportunity to participate in an internationally recognised business degree programme where learning takes place both in the classroom and on the job, with tuition fees and a salary paid throughout the programme.

DBS has teamed up with one of Ireland's fastest growing retailers to offer ambitious students an opportunity to work and study while developing their future career.

The course is split 50/50 between college-based learning and work-based learning. The college-based learning takes place in Dublin Business School’s city centre campus and you will receive your work-based learning in a Lidl training store located in the Republic of Ireland, ideally close to your home town.

Students will study key business and marketing subjects which are directly linked to work-based application and 'learn by doing' opportunities in a workplace environment. Subjects studied include:

• Retail Principles
• Management
• Services Marketing
• Consumer and Buyer Behaviour
• Business and Company Law

Upon completion of this programme, students will not only graduate from their degree programme, but will have an excellent chance of being offered a permanent Deputy Store Manager contract immediately.

Applications can only be made online via the Lidl Degree website, and applications close May 31st 2013, so immediate application is advised. For further information on this programme, please visit the DBS website or contact our admissions team on 01-4177500