UCAS personal statements are changing from the 2026 entry cycle onwards – this guidance from UCAS covers what is changing, why the changes are happening, and how you can support students.
UCAS The University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) is an admissions test used by a consortium of UK and International Universities to help select applicants for their medical and dental degree programmes. This guide tells you all you need to know about the 2023 testing cycle and gives useful tips and resources to help you prepare.
Applications These impartial videos have one key aim. To support students who are considering university to make informed future subject decisions. They feature guest speakers from a range of different universities, who are always experts in the subject being explored.
Decisions | Higher Education With the Unite Foundation scholarship, you’ll have accommodation and bills covered for up to 3 years at university. That includes all through the holidays too, so you don’t have to wonder where to go during Christmas or summer. There are 95 places available on the scholarship in September 2024. You can apply for the scholarship if you’re:
25 or under
A statutory care leaver, care experienced (Scotland), or estranged from your family
Starting or studying your first undergraduate degree
Eligible for UK home fee status
Applying to one of the Unite Foundation’s partner universities (see ‘Where you can study’)
Care Experienced | Higher Education | Student Life The University of Sunderland’s First Choice Progression scheme aims to equip students with the key skills required to be successful at university and support them in their journey towards higher education. The university work closely with local pupils to help build on vital transferable skills and lay the foundations for a successful university experience.
Access Scheme | Applications | Higher Education | Summer School Barclay’s have joined forced with Freeform to provide ‘virtual work experience’ which will give you the chance to learn more about an industry and the skills you
Careers Take a look at this directory of virtual work experience programmes in a range of different sectors so that you can explore your future options from wherever you are!
Careers The first issue of the FutureMe ‘What Can? HE Can!’ comic book, featuring the winning comic strip entries of the 2019 FutureMe Enterprise Challenge.
FutureMe The second issue of the FutureMe ‘What Can? HE Can!’ comic book, featuring the winning comic strip entries of the 2020 FutureMe Challenge.
FutureMe The third issue of the FutureMe ‘What Can? HE Can!’ comic book, featuring the winning comic strip entries of the 2021 FutureMe Enterprise Challenge.
FutureMe Help your students make good financial choices by covering topics from student finance and flat sharing to credit cards and cryptocurrencies using resources from WizeUp, a financial education charity.
Student Finance Lists quality marked resources, allowing teachers to search by type, theme, key stage or subject. Young Money also runs an annual ‘My Money Week’, for which it supplies resources.
Careers | Student Finance Take time to think about your Future by completing this Skills and Career booklet by Youth Employment UK.
Careers Create your account and have access to free, weekly video mentoring sessions as you prepare to apply to your higher education study.
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