Inspire your students in National Apprenticeship Week 2025
National Apprenticeship Week is the perfect time to highlight a pathway that combines education, experience, and earning – helping students launch their careers with real-world skills.
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Inspire your students in National Apprenticeship Week 2025
National Apprenticeship Week is the perfect time to highlight a pathway that combines education, experience, and earning – helping students launch their careers with real-world skills.
Job offers, contracts, and starting work
Great news, you’ve got that job! Here are some key things you need to know about now.
Languages 2026 personal statement guide
Applying for French, Spanish, German, Mandarin or another language or combined languages degree? Read on for some expert pointers from admissions tutors.
Launching an apprenticeship programme: Five top tips from the experts
For all the documents, guides, and FAQs, sometimes you need to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth.
Law 2026 personal statement guide
From wider reading to spot-on spelling and grammar, you'll need a personal statement that makes a convincing case. We asked admissions tutors to share their top dos and don’ts.
Lesson activities: 11 – 14 year olds
Get your 11 – 14 year old students thinking about their futures with our careers planner, identifying strengths worksheet, presentation, and activities to support those with English as an additional language (EAL).
Lesson activities: 14 – 16 year olds
Use our activities and tools to inspire your 14 – 16 year old students to think about their futures, understand their choices, and help them make the right decisions.
Lesson activities: 16 – 18 year olds
Resources, toolkits, lesson plans and presentations for you to use with your 16 – 18 year old students, aimed to equip them with information on all their future options.
Living costs for full-time students
You can get student finance to help towards your living costs while you’re at university or college. Content provided by Student Finance England.
Living costs for part-time students
You can get student finance to help towards your living costs while you’re at university or college. Content provided by Student Finance England.
Making changes to your application after you apply
You can make some changes to your application yourself, and for others you either contact the universities and colleges, or you contact us.
Making changes to your UCAS Conservatoires application
You may need to make changes to your UCAS Conservatoires application. Here, we'll explain what you need to do.
Making new friends and dealing with homesickness
It’s common for new students to feel some anxiety about finding and making new friends – especially if they’re moving away from home.
Managing a successful apprenticeships programme: Five top tips from the experts
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.
Managing money
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.
Materials science and engineering 2026 personal statement guide
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.
Mature student case studies
Hear directly from mature students about what it was like studying for their undergraduate degrees