Links about how to make a safer choice of higher education
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- Your student colleagues may have come across some helpful people and approaches to choosing higher education courses.
- Parents can be very diligent researchers and are likely to turn up important issues and useful information once you get them started.
- Your subject teachers may be a reassuring and credible source of advice, but they will not know about all of the courses and their outcomes, and tend to be particularly enthusiastic about their own subject areas.
- Your careers teacher, college careers adviser, or Connexions Personal Adviser are likely to offer a more complete and impartial picture. They may also know about alternatives that will offer you better prospects than higher education.
- Anyone you know who is currently studying at university, or who has recently graduated might point out some important issues. You might like to speak with someone who worked and travelled between school and university. They sometimes feel this improved their choice.
- University lecturers and admissions tutors usually know how to make their courses sound attractive, but they need to recruit large numbers of students and may not offer impartial advice about course choice.
- Your careers teacher, or College careers adviser will know some excellent websites that help with HE choice
- You may want to view universities’ websites as sales documents.
- Your careers teacher, or College careers adviser will know some excellent websites that help with HE choice
Websites
www.hesa.ac.uk
The Higher Education Statistical Agency co-ordinates the First Destination
Survey.
www.qaa.ac.uk/choices.htm
Assessments of the quality of teaching and research at universities and colleges
that offer higher education. Many undergraduate courses are taught by academics
conducting ground-breaking research. Brilliant researchers are not necessarily
outstanding teachers.
www.ucas.ac.uk
The University and Colleges Admissions Service manages students' HE applications.