Thinking about Higher Education?

We’ve just completely updated the Higher Education area of our website, which covers everything you need to know about Higher Education, from choosing courses to student life, making your application, cash facts and taking a year out. You’ll even find advice on what you can do after an HE course, so you can really plan ahead. Each section has lots of information and help, as well as links to all the essential HE websites you’ll need.

You can also get all this information as a single downloadable PDF “HE Guide”, available from our HE webpages.

Thought of a career in Nursing?

Birmingham City University is recruiting right now to its BSc (Hons) Nursing programmes (Adult, Child, Mental Health and Learning Disability fields) which start in April 2012.
Visit their Nursing Open Day on Saturday 4 February (10am–3.30pm) to find out more. Details about the Open Day and more are at www.bcu.ac.uk/aprilstartnursing or call 0121 331 5595. BCU’s Faculty of Health is also at www.facebook.com/bcuhealth

Higher Education Myth Busting Materials

We’ve been working with Aimhigher to develop some Higher Education myth-busting materials, which are now live on our website:

• A new HE myth-busting web page for young people is live
• A new parent/carer HE myth-busting newsletter and parent/carer web pages 
• A HE myth-busting Powerpoint presentation for professionals 

Also, our revised LMI World of Work webpages are available for more information about the Labour Market, covering topics like:

• What is Labour Market Information (LMI)?
• How can LMI help me beat the recession?
• World of work headlines
• Local job trends
• What are employers looking for?
• Building your skills and experience