Congratulations to Aneeqa Meedin on winning the student essay competition 2007   This year students had to answer the question:

"What advice would you give to students starting your course?"

The Centre for Bioscience is pleased to announce the winner of the student essay competition 2007; Aneeqa Meedin, a 3rd year Biomedical Sciences student from the University of Sheffield.

The Student Essay Competition, open to all UK higher education students studying a pure or applied biological science, aims to raise awareness in the bioscience teaching and learning community of some of the issues affecting students. The competition gives students the opportunity to gain points for their CV, stand out from the crowd, and win up to £250 for their essay.

Twenty-one entries were received, all of a very high quality, of these nine were shortlisted from which one overall winner and three runner-up essays were chosen.

We hope that the essays provide a useful resource for teaching staff and especially for students, highlighting issues, and providing advice and information to new students and those who teach them. A commentary on the essays will be published as a short communication in the Bioscience Education e-journal.

Thank you to all who submitted an essay and congratulations to the winner, Aneeqa Meedin, the runners-up, Esther Law, Natasha Tian and Kimberley Washford and all the shortlisted entrants. The winning, runner-up and shortlisted essays are available below to download in pdf format.

Winner

• Aneeqa Meedin, 3rd year Biomedical Sciences student at the University of Sheffield

Runners-up

• Esther Law, final year Biomedical Sciences student at the University of Manchester
• Natasha Tian, 4th year PhD Developmental Neuroscience student at Edinburgh University
• Kimberley Washford, 3rd year Zoology student at the University of Bristol

Shortlisted

• James Candeland, 2nd year Biological Sciences student at the University of Leicester
• Helen Corby, 2nd year Biochemistry student at the University of Manchester
• Samantha Craddock, 3rd year Biomedical Sciences student at the University of Hull
• Michelle Edwards, 3rd year Biochemistry student at the University of Manchester
• Freya Holland-Maxwell, 2nd year Biochemistry student at the University of Birmingham

Essays were received from students at the following institutions:

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