Jun 17, 2025 | A Levels, Career Guidance, Parenting, UCAS
How do you make your university choices when there are over 166 universities and over 260 providers of higher education in the UK to choose from? This is a big decision to make when you are seventeen and also having to juggle school work, exam pressures and all the...
Oct 15, 2024 | Career Guidance, Careers, Parenting, UCAS
Getting your career on track after graduation can feel difficult. Have you been struggling to find the ‘right’ job since you finished university? Have you fallen into the trap of staying in the ‘in-between’ job after coming home, before getting your ‘proper’ job? It...
Jun 25, 2024 | A Levels, Careers, Exams, Parenting, UCAS
Each year about 30,000 students defer their university course to take a gap year and if you include those that take a gap year without officially deferring, then the figure is much higher. Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking a gap year? There are...
Nov 14, 2023 | A Levels, Career Guidance, Careers, UCAS
Through year 12 students will start thinking about what their post A-level choices are and what they would like to do after sixth form. Three of the main opportunities open to students are: going to university to complete an undergraduate degree, applying for a degree...
Aug 31, 2022 | A Levels, Careers, Parenting, UCAS
A simple guide to UCAS is needed because it can be a minefield of confusing jargon, deadlines and hoops to jump through if you haven’t done it before. Even if you are an experienced head of sixth form or adviser and use it every year there are always changes to learn...
Apr 26, 2022 | A Levels, Careers, UCAS
There are forty four medical schools in the UK. They are all unique. Some, like Edinburgh, are old, established and world famous, while others, such as Edge Hill, are brand new and hardly known. Some, like Swansea and Warwick, are graduate entry only, while others,...
