University Advice (29 total posts)

Application Essays, Personal Statements, Letters of Motivation… your voice, your application!

May 25, 2016

For most applications a personal piece of writing is required (but of course there are exceptions). This piece of writing may be restricted to a word or character limit, some may have a specific prompt, others may offer a choice of prompts, some will have specific...

Interviews, auditions, VDOs and portfolios!

April 25, 2016

Some of you may be preparing Fine Art/Performance/Media/Design portfolios, some may be preparing audition pieces for Drama/Music/Dance/Circus Arts College, some of you preparing Performance/Media/Design VDO pieces and some of you preparing for face-to-face interviews...

What’s in a MOOC? MOOCs for High School students applying to university or college.

March 23, 2016

MOOCs, or Mass Open Online Courses, are increasing in popularity in the working and higher education worlds as a way of gaining extra credentials and subject specific knowledge which are all very useful for advancing professional profiles. MOOC courses are...

Important update on Student and Work Visas for International Students

February 24, 2016

From Oxford University Student News: February 5, 2016 New online form for applying for a Tier 4 student visa. The Home Office introduced a new online form for Tier 4 applications on 1 February 2016. If you have already started an application using the previous form...

Liberal Arts & Sciences – is this the degree for you?

February 17, 2016

What is a Liberal Arts & Sciences degree? Liberal Arts and Sciences is not a new idea and in fact began in Ancient Greece aimed at facilitating high quality, academic studies to develop critical and analytical thinkers in a broad range of disciplines. Typically...

More places available in UK universities in 2016.

January 4, 2016

UK Universities are buying up land, leasing buildings and refurbishing in a bid to create extra space for the expected influx of extra students following George Osborne’s complete lift on the cap of student numbers in 2015. This lifting of the cap was unexpectedly...

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