Everything you need to help your students progress to higher education

This section of our website is designed to help staff at schools, colleges and other centres, who advise potential applicants for higher education courses in the UK. adviser smiling in lecture

We cover your preparation leading up to the application and give you some suggestions to help your students decide what and where to study. A brief overview of the application process is provided, including helpful flowcharts to explain how everything fits together.

Finding the right course

Application process

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Our role in the process

If you would like to find out more about UK higher education and research, visit the HERO website www.hero.ac.uk for further information on universities and colleges and the latest university news.

What Do Graduates Do?
Find out what happened to graduates and postgraduates six months after completing a course at university or college in What Do Graduates Do?. Taken from the Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education survey by HESA, this publication is designed for use by careers professionals, but is useful for anyone interested in getting a straightforward overview of the graduate employment market.

What Do Graduates Do? and What Do Graduates Do? (Scotland) are available as pdfs on the research reports section of the HESCU website. What Do Graduates Do? can be purchased in hard-copy from the UCAS bookstore.