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Everything you need to help your students progress to higher education
This section is designed to help staff at schools, colleges and other centres, who advise potential applicants for higher education courses in the UK.
We cover your preparation leading up to the application and give you some suggestions to help your students decide what and where to study.
Adviser Guide: 2009 entry (0.98MB PDF file)
This guide is for staff at schools, colleges and other centres, who advise potential applicants for higher education (HE) courses in the UK. It explains how students go about applying for higher education and how we deal with their applications.
Big Map: 2009 entry (942 KB file)
A list of all universities and colleges in the UCAS scheme and their locations in the UK.
Other resources
What Do Graduates Do?
Find out what happened to graduates and postgraduates six months after completing a course at university or college in What Do Graduates Do?. Taken from the Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education survey by HESA, this publication is designed for use by careers professionals, but is useful for anyone interested in getting a straightforward overview of the graduate employment market.
What Do Graduates Do? and What Do Graduates Do? (Scotland) are available as pdfs on the research reports section of the HESCU website. What Do Graduates Do? can be purchased in hard-copy from the UCAS bookstore.
Link-up
Link-up is written by higher education careers advisers and published by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS). Link-up provides information to staff in schools and colleges who deliver HE and post-16 advice and is designed to keep you to date on a range of specific issues.
Click here to download the latest edition of Link-up.
Other useful information for students
Another useful website you can direct your students to is www.unistats.com, which allows them to compare subjects at universities and colleges. It provides information and statistics that students can use to make an informed choice and contains the official National Student Survey results. They can find out what other students thought about their experience at university or college, on the subject they chose, their quality of learning when they got there and what they did afterwards.