Phoebe Bown receives her award from
Bob Burgess, chair of the Higher
Education Academy Board
The Student Experience
The Student Voice - Student competition 2010
The English Subject Centre’s student essay competition now in its 5th year, was a great success with fifty entries, a new Subject Centre record! You can read the winning entries below. This year's topic really enlivened students:
A soft option? What is difficult about English studies or Creative Writing?
The winner was Phoebe Bown from the University of Glasgow.
The competition is an annual Higher Education Academy event in which all Subject Centres participate. The winner of the English Subject Centre competition goes forward to a national competition involving students from all disciplines.
Winning Entry
Phoebe Bown - University of Glasgow (33kb)
Lara Clayton
"..you cannot simply let the author take you by the hand and lead you on a little adventure, then write gushingly about what techniques they used to enthral and enrapture you.”
Runner up
Lara Clayton - Blackpool & the Fylde College- (35kb)
"...this degree requires my time, attention and commitment, not just during lessons but outside of them as well, and thus, it has affected my priorities and my life. "
Last Year's Entries
"Why should UK taxpayers support you for three years to read novels, write poems or play with words"
Read essays on this topic from our 2009 essay competition -->
