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Everything you need to help your students progress to higher education
This section is designed to help staff at schools, colleges and other centres, who advise potential applicants for higher education courses in the UK.
We cover your preparation leading up to the application and give you some suggestions to help your students decide what and where to study.
Adviser Guide: 2009 entry (0.98MB PDF file)
This guide is for staff at schools, colleges and other centres, who advise potential applicants for higher education (HE) courses in the UK. It explains how students go about applying for higher education and how we deal with their applications.
Big Map: 2009 entry (942 KB file)
A list of all universities and colleges in the UCAS scheme and their locations in the UK.
Other resources
What Do Graduates Do?
You may find the What Do Graduates Do? publication on the Graduate Prospects website useful. Find out the latest information about what happened to graduates six months after completing a higher education course. The information is based on the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey, conducted for the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The publication is available to purchase from the UCAS bookstore.
If you are interested in the destinations of graduates from Scottish higher education institutions, please read the What Do Graduates Do? Scotland publication on the HESCU website.
Link-up
Link-up is written by higher education careers advisers and published by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS). Link-up provides information to staff in schools and colleges who deliver HE and post-16 advice and is designed to keep you to date on a range of specific issues.
Click here to download the latest edition of Link-up.
Other useful information for students
Another useful website you can direct your students to is www.unistats.com, which allows them to compare subjects at universities and colleges. It provides information and statistics that students can use to make an informed choice and contains the official National Student Survey results. They can find out what other students thought about their experience at university or college, on the subject they chose, their quality of learning when they got there and what they did afterwards.