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The built environment encompasses lots of courses and professions, so outline your reasons for wanting to study the particular building and construction course you’re applying for, and what fascinates you about buildings and how they’re made.

Build a personal statement that contains all the right elements by making it personal, relevant, and reflective.

Build a strong and sturdy personal statement, with details of your interest in civil engineering alongside relevant facts about you.

A degree apprenticeship gives you the opportunity to gain a paid-for degree while getting industry experience and earning a salary.

Get the circuitry right with a personal statement that powers up your good points, lets your knowledge shine, and shows what sparked your interest in electrical and electronic engineering.

Make sure you tailor your personal statement to the course you’re applying to and keep it personal, relevant, and reflective.

Admissions tutors want to hear about how you personally connect with geography and how you pursue your geographical interests outside of school or college.

Administer the right measure of enthusiasm, curiosity, competence, and career aspirations for a compelling health personal statement.

Give admissions tutors an insight into the kind of person you are, what experience you have, and your motivation to study hospitality, leisure, and tourism.

Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Chief Executive Officer, Jisc

Tom Ravenscroft, Chief Executive Officer, Skills Builder

Think accountancy is all about number-crunching? Think again! There’s far more to being an accountant than just figures.

Heading into the world of work offers you the chance to start earning, get experience, build your skills to increase your employability, and improve your CV for the future.

If you’re applying for a job but don’t have any, or much, professional experience, it can be tricky to know what to include on your CV. But any life experience you have will be valuable when applying for a job or apprenticeship – it’s how you talk about that experience that matters.

We invited organisations who could offer guidance on the day-to-day running of apprenticeships programmes, as well as how to support apprentices through to completion. We had speakers from the Association of Apprentices, Workplus, and Lloyd’s Banking Group – if you missed it, here’s what happened.

Assemble answers that are personal, relevant, and reflective if you want to produce the perfect manufacturing engineering personal statement.

If you're applying for a marketing degree, make sure you can sell yourself in your personal statement!

Materials scientists and engineers are innovators and thinkers, so show admissions tutors you’ve got the right aptitude and passion to explore this subject at degree level.