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Welcome
to the UK-student’s web site!
This
website was set up to give help and advice to anyone thinking
about going to university in the UK
My name is
Matthew James and I am currently studying for a degree in physics.
I first decided that I wanted to go to university when I was studying
for my A-levels. My school offered some help with going to university
but there were vast bits of information that they left out, meaning
that I had to find out most of the information myself. I searched
through various websites and managed to extract small bits of
advice or information that I needed- but I couldn’t find
one particular book or website that contained all of the relevant
information that I needed. So then I decided to make life easier
for anyone else thinking about starting a course at a UK university.
Parents and students can find that this is a very stressful time
of their lives and it certainly does help to have as much relevant
information/advice as possible to hand, in one complete guide.
The
UK Student’s Guide to University was written with
the intention of telling you everything you need to know about
going to university in the UK, from choosing your course and applying,
to surviving at university and graduating.
The easiest
way of telling you what is included in the guide is to show you
the chapter list:
1.
Introduction
2.
Are you sure you want to go to University?
3.
Choosing Your Course
3.1
The types of qualification required to apply for a course at university
3.2
The types of qualification awarded by universities
4.
Applying to University (courses that do not use UCAS)
4.1
Postgraduate Courses
4.2
Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
4.3
Nurses and Midwives
4.4
Musicians
5.
Applying to UCAS
5.1
Application dates
5.2
Art and Design Courses
5.3
Gap year
5.4
What goes on the form?
5.5
Application fee
5.6
What happens when UCAS receive your form?
5.7
What happens when you get your results?
5.8
UCAS tariff tables
5.9
Clearing
5.10
UCAS extra
5.11
Application timetable
6.
The Open University
7.
Finance
7.1
Types of financial help available
7.2
Applying for a student loan
7.3
Types of loans, grants and bursaries available from the Student
Loans Company
7.4
Loan Repayments
7.5
Types of loans, grants and bursaries available from other sources
7.6
Budgeting & part time work
7.7
To Summarise
8.
If things don’t go to plan
8.1
Didn’t get the required A-level results
8.2
Clearing
8.3
UCAS Extra
8.4
Preliminary Year
8.5
Get there and want to come home
8.6
Failing University Exams
8.7
Changing course
9.
Accommodation
9.1
Catered Halls of Residence
9.2
Sub-Warden
9.3
Self Catered Halls of Residence
9.4
Private Sector
9.5
Staying at home
10.
Student Life
10.1
Freshers’ week and the students’ union
10.2
Guidance and Support
10.3
Academic Support
10.4
Cultural Support
10.5
Disability
10.6
Counselling
10.7
Careers Advice
10.8
Welfare
10.9
Doctors
10.10
Exams
11.
Graduation
11.1
Graduation ceremony
11.2
Repaying the student loan
12.
Useful Contacts
13.
Updates of this eBook
The
eBook has been published in PDF format, which means that it can
be read on your computer screen. To read the guide, you will need
a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don’t already have
a copy of this software you can download it for free from the
Adobe website (www.adobe.com).
This is a big eBook - it runs into just under 70 A4
sized pages and can be printed out if you wish by clicking on
the ‘print’ button in the Adobe Acrobat software.
This eBook includes free updates!
Over time I will update this guide. This is because rules may change such as student loan entitlements or the process of applying to university may change completely. Any updates made to this guide will be available to previous buyers free of charge.
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cost of this eBook is £6.50 and it can be purchased in one
of two ways:
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