Offer holder days? Not all unis?

[PoliteSquid]

My DS has all his offers and is trying to decide between his top 3. Only one (Norwich Arts Uni) has mentioned offer holder days. The other 2 are Nottingham Trent and Uni of Staffs. Nothing in subsequent communications and nothing on websites. I’ll probably give them a call on Monday, but wanted to get advice here about whether this sounds usual for these unis?

Trent definitely does them - but beware the deadline for accommodation is often before the offer holder day which makes one of the purposes of the day (examination of accommodation options) entirely redundant.

I’ve never heard of offer holder days. What are they? Maybe I’m a bit out of touch. DD graduated two years ago.

Basically a second open day with a greater focus on the course. I went to 3 with 2DC. Trent was by far the worst, of the other 2 it was the deciding factor for one DC, it was great day run by the department they were interested in and included sample lecture, some group activity amongst the participants and a nice lunch (no parents allowed!) plus tour of campus and accommodation. ETA this was up to 8 years ago so it’s not a new thing

Okay, so at Staffs the open day included a subject based lesson thing and very in depth accommodation tour.
DS did a summer school week at NTU after Y11 and it sounds like the offer holder day would be a bit pointless 😬 Current advice on their website for “after your offer” was to book onto an open day!!!!

I work in HE and from what I can gather, there seems to be a bit of a trend in moving away from them currently.

I'd be very careful about being swayed by them too much; in my experience they bare very little resemblance to what it is actually like to study there. I'd say the best use of your time is to hunt down the student ambassadors for your programme at an open day and quiz them about their experience

Oh, my ds has one for each of his offers to study MPhys. A mixture of Russell Group and not. He also had one linked with his interview at Lancaster.