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Level 3 apprenticeships are available in Northern Ireland if you are already employed, or about to take up paid employment.

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You can get student finance to help towards your living costs while you’re at university or college. Content provided by Student Finance England.

Maisy Sinclair is in her third year of a four-year degree apprenticeship in software engineering, in digital partnership with PwC and Queen's University Belfast.

Give your students the tools they need to make informed decisions about which subjects to study at A level or equivalent – with one eye on their future plans.

If your application is successful, you’ll receive a conditional or unconditional offer – here’s how to make the right choice for you.

Building on our session with employers which shared their advice on how to start apprenticeships successfully, this time we’re looking at what to do once they’re up and running. We invited the experts again and here’s what they had to say.

Learn how to support your mental health through stressful periods like exams.

Is the cost of living making your next steps harder? Whether you’re interested in a traditional degree or becoming an apprentice, we’re here to support you on your higher education journey.

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.

Regardless of the subset of maths you love, demonstrating your motivation and enthusiasm for the subject is key to an impressive maths and statistics personal statement.

Every year, thousands of adults go into higher education and many study at a conservatoire. It's a great chance to develop skills and career options.

Hear directly from mature students about what it was like studying for their undergraduate degrees

Once you’ve made the decision that HE is right for you, you might start thinking about how you’re going to prepare to study at university or college.

The personal statement is your opportunity to talk about you, and why you want to enrol on a particular course. Applying to university if you’re 21 or over isn’t unusual, but how can you best make that life experience shine through?