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Higher Education Should you go into Higher Education? What course should you do?

Introduction (5 minutes). Higher Education Should you go into Higher Education? What course should you do? Where should you go?. Group work (5 minutes). What questions are still in your mind about Higher Education? Complete the hand outs in pairs Each of you interview the other.

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Higher Education Should you go into Higher Education? What course should you do?

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  1. Introduction (5 minutes) • Higher Education • Should you go into Higher Education? • What course should you do? • Where should you go?

  2. Group work (5 minutes) What questions are still in your mind about Higher Education? Complete the hand outs in pairs Each of you interview the other

  3. Discussion session (10 minutes) • Which questions were difficult to answer? • Which ones couldn’t you answer? • What additional questions do you feel should have been on the questionnaire? • What issues do you think are important to students currently at university?

  4. Unistats demonstration (15 minutes) • The Unistats website • unistats.direct.gov.uk • Unistats is the official site that allows you to search for and compare data and information on university and college courses from across the UK.

  5. How to use Unistats Finding a course Search for a course Browse for courses Browse for universities & colleges

  6. How to use Unistats Search results Choose data to show, to show data for each course Browse the available courses through the search results Use the filters to refine your search Click on a course to view more statistics about it

  7. How to use Unistats Data Browse data on the course pages to find out more about individual courses

  8. How to use Unistats Comparing courses Add courses you are interested in to your Shortlist Select “Compare courses” to see a comparison of courses in your Shortlist

  9. How to use Unistats Comparing courses Print or download your comparison for later reference Use the tabs to browse all the categories of data

  10. How to use Unistats Course assistant Start the Course assistant through following the link at the top of the page Answer a range of questions to find courses that match your specification

  11. How to use Unistats Registering Use this link to register to Unistats By registering to Unistats you can save searches, course assistant and a selection of data you are interested Add notes to remind yourself about interesting aspects of the course By registering to Unistats you will be able to save your shortlist and be able to access it on other devices

  12. Independent research (15 minutes) • Research courses on Unistats that interest you • Find out information about the courses • Create a shortlist of courses that you are interested in • Compare two or more courses • Register with Unistats • Download a pdf report of your comparison

  13. Reflection (10 minutes) • What did you find out from Unistats? • Did the information surprise you? • Was it useful? • What was the most interesting piece of data? • How could you use this website at home to help inform your decisions for HE?

  14. Further resources • UCAS http://www.ucas.com/ • Unistats unistats.direct.gov.uk

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