The simple guide to student finance applications
Time’s ticking on your applications, and if you’ve not written them yet, it’s time to get weaving. Let student finance expert David Ellis show you how. These moments of the year are often spiced with a faint unease, an unremitting ‘what have I forgotten?’ When student finance applications opened in February, good intentions meant applying...
University’s golden girls of fashion
University of Ulster Four University of Ulster art students are through to the final of a major fashion competition which is hailed as a launch pad for Ireland’s top designers. The successful students will have their creations showcased at the glamourous Golden Egg Fashion Innovation Awards which takes place in Galway later this month. This...
University of Ulster’s Graduate Bootcamp Is A Runaway Success
A Graduate Winter Bootcamp at the University of Ulster to boost graduates’ employment prospects has proved so popular that organisers are planning more for the future. The recent two-day forum attracted more participants than expected and those who were unable to secure a place will be enrolled in the next session. The bootcamp was organised...
Is a Masters Degree Really Ever Worth It?
Your degree might be coming to an end, but are you ready to leave university yet? Tamsin Crouch and Tom Goulding discuss the benefits of continuing your university education. For many undergraduates in their final year at university, the spectre of graduation is looming ever closer on the horizon. Some will relish the prospect of...
Graduate Focus: QUB Backs Innovative E Learning Package
QUEEN’S HEALTH workers and patients across Northern Ireland are to benefit from a new initiative at Queen’s University which better prepares trainee doctors to safely move patients. In addition to the risk to patients from incorrect handling, back injuries suffered by healthcare workers are estimated to cost the NHS around £400 million and account for...
What’s It Like To Study… Field Science
Not every degree leaves you languishing in lectures for three years. Third-year zoologist Tamara Williams’ studies have taken her to Ecuador so she can get up close and personal with rain forest life. At some point in my teens, I found myself so lost in the mesmerising world portrayed by David Attenborough, that I knew...
You’ve got that UCAS offer, but now what?
What to do once you’ve received those university offers After spending the last few months obsessively checking inboxes, for most students the UCAS anxiety is almost over. You’ve got your offers, so what next? Cecily Fleming explores the options. Choosing a university is a different experience for everyone. Some might have a firm idea of...
Graduate Focus: Queen’s and University of Ulster
Queen’s Queen’s University Belfast has been announced as one of the new partners in Futurelearn, the UK’s first provider of free, open online courses from multiple top-ranking institutions. The announcement was made as six of the Futurelearn partners take part in a major business and skills mission to India with the Prime Minister, David Cameron....
Whats it like to Study… Broadcasting
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO STUDY… BROADCASTING What courses? Broadcasting; broadcast media; broadcast journalism; radio production; media production; radio; TV and film production; television and broadcasting; broadcast technology; broadcast operations. What do you come out with? A BA, although a tiny minority of technically-focused courses end with a BSc. What’s it about? The wonderful box (or...
What’s it like to study… Advertising
What courses? Marketing; advertising; information management; public relations; communications; campaign management; retail management. Joint honours degrees are offered with other business-based courses, as well as unrelated subjects. Some universities offer marketing degrees for specific industries, including leisure, sport and fashion. What do you come out with? Usually a BA, but a BSc in some cases....