Some students ask about Liverpool as a base. Any gazetteer or encyclopaedia will give an account of Liverpool and its history. It was a major seaport linking Europe to North America in Victorian times and is about the sixth largest city in the UK. It now draws on a population of the area in which it resides, known as Merseyside, of well over a million, but it is a 45-minute drive from Manchester that draws on a population of perhaps 4 million. It takes only three hours to travel to London on the train. What these numbers do not reveal though is that with approximately 50,000 students in the city it is a very lively place to be a student with a night-life that most lecturers regard as far too inviting. The city also has a very long tradition of welcoming overseas visitors. So although the ethnic minorities in the city are not a very large proportion they are very varied and many of them have come from families who have been established in the city for many generations.

Previous course members very frequently report a fondness for Liverpool and for their experiences on the course. There are, of course, always ups and downs, but we can think of few people who would not consider their year on the course as formative (especially the many senior officers who have attended the course).

The University has a UK Student Recruitment Office (tel: 0151 794 5927, fax: 0151 794 2060) and an International Relations and Recruitment Office (tel: +44 (0) 151 794 6730, fax: +44 (0) 151 794 6733). They provide various documents of guidance to students including updated information on the costs of being a student in Liverpool.

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