Academic Skills Unit (ASU)

The Academic Skills Unit (ASU) can help empower your academic journey with practical tools, personalised support and expert guidance.

What is the Academic Skills Unit?

The Academic Skills Unit (ASU) can help empower your academic journey with practical tools, personalised support and expert guidance.

How can we support you?

Whether you’re starting your first semester or enhancing your skills mid-degree, we’re here to support you. Throughout your course, you can book appointments with our advisors, attend workshops and take advantage of our online resources.

There are three main skill areas we work on with students:

Study and academic skills
Build effective study habits and succeed under pressure.

• Study strategies
  Discover powerful time management, note-taking and critical-reading techniques.
• Assignment planning
  Learn how to structure your essays, reports and presentations clearly.
• Exam success
  Master exam preparation, revision methods and strategies to manage exam stress confidently.

Academic writing and referencing
Express your ideas clearly and effectively.

• Writing clearly and confidently
  Develop your skills in writing persuasive, structured and analytical assignments.
• Referencing made easy
  Understand referencing conventions at ACU and how to apply them consistently.
• Academic integrity
  Learn practical strategies to confidently avoid plagiarism. 

Maths and numeracy
Strengthen your numeracy skills with clarity and confidence.

• Core maths skills
  Get support for fundamental mathematics skills needed at university.
• Problem-solving
  Learn strategies to tackle numerical and quantitative problems effectively.
• Numeracy tailored for your degree
  Specialised resources for Education, Nursing, Psychology and more.