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Oxbridge Law Applications: the Ultimate Guide, Written by a Top Oxford Law Graduate
About the Author Samantha Love read Law at Merton College, Oxford, and is currently following the BCL course. Oxford and Cambridge are well known for requiring a perpetual balancing act between spending time in the library and dressing up for dinners and balls.
How to Choose the Right University for You: the Ultimate Guide
Choosing which university you want to attend is one of the most important decisions of your life so far. However, the overwhelming choice available to you can make the decision a difficult one. With 116 universities to choose from in the UK alone, to say nothing of overseas universities, you’ll need to be strategic to […]
Science Revision Tips for GCSE and A-level Students from a Cambridge Graduate
About the author Philippa Logan read Natural Sciences (specialising in Chemistry) at Newnham College, Cambridge. Hermione Granger was essentially doing science A-levels. Except in her case, they were NEWTs (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests), and instead of doing the conventional Physics, Chemistry and Biology, she was taking more intriguing subjects: Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Charms, Defence against […]
The Best UK University For…
Choosing a university can be a time-consuming process, and one that’s made harder by the huge choice of top institutions available to you. Your decisions will be shaped by your personal priorities, and that makes it impossible for others – including us! – to advise you on which is the right university for you. However, […]
4 Things That University Admissions Tutors Don't Care About (And What They Focus On Instead)
It’s perhaps because writing the personal statement presents such a challenge for university applicants that there are so many myths surrounding what you should and shouldn’t write on it. It’s the aspect of the application process that most worries students (with the possible exception of interviews), but even a little knowledge of what exactly it […]
Are you thinking of studying Biochemistry?
Biochemistry, as the name suggests, is where Biology meets Chemistry: it’s the study of living things at a molecular level – or, to put it another way, the study of the very foundations of life. It helps us to understand topics as diverse as disease, genetics, evolution and DNA. Our understanding of Biochemistry enables the […]
How to Work Out What To Do When You Graduate
When you leave school, the path is set out for you. When you finish your undergraduate degree, it’s not so clear. If you’re someone who always planned on going to university, what you were going to do once you finished school was probably quite straightforward. You had to pick the five universities that would fill ...
How the Rest of the UK's Top Ten Universities Compare to Oxford
If you’re dead set on going to Oxford, it’s important to remember that there are still four other places on your UCAS form. The University of Oxford has just topped the world university rankings (a first for a UK university), but Britain has no shortage of other world-class universities to offer. Some are quite similar to ...
6 Innovative Ways Different Countries and Schools Have Dealt With Common Student Problems
When you spend your childhood growing up in a particular education system, it can be difficult to imagine how teaching could be any different from how you’ve experienced it. You’d be surprised, then, at some of the educational innovations made possible by going back to the drawing board. In this article, we look at some ...