Why Bother With an Open Day
Open days are a great way to see exactly what each university has to offer and what the area around the university is like. You might love the campus, but hate the location, love the […]
Staffordshire University
Clearing: Is Uni Worthwhile?
If you don’t go to uni, you won’t get a job: a mantra that was drilled into everyone I went to school with. The last six months of college were a frenzy of applications, personal […]
There’s Still Time To Apply Through Clearing
Clearing has been going on for about a week now, and you know the weird thing is that at this point, when I was coming through clearing, I still hadn’t applied. This week, two years […]
How Blogging Can Help You Through Uni
Having been a Student Blogger/ Digital Student Ambassador for Staffordshire University for nearly a year now, I can honestly say that it is one of the best decision I made to apply for the job. […]
Clearing was the best decision I ever made…
I know a lot of people hate the idea of going through Clearing… You had in your mind a plan of what you wanted to be and what you wanted to do at university but […]
What to expect if you visit us about Clearing, by Sian and Lauren
Over the Clearing weekend Lauren and I were in Brindley, welcoming walk-ins. We saw students from as far away as Kent, Worcester and Dover, and students from a little closer; Lichfield, Wilmslow and Shrewsbury. As […]
University vs. School
The transition from college or sixth form to uni can be a big one, especially if you’re moving away from home. There are sooo many differences between being at school and being at university, so […]
What I wish I’d known about Clearing
So having been through Clearing twice you’d think I had little to nothing to learn about it, right? Well, I’ve learnt plenty and I’m still being surprised. There’s things I’ve discovered helping the Clearing Team […]
Catching up when you come through Clearing
2009: it was mid-October, I was nineteen, fresh from Clearing and all kinds of debacles, and I’d arrived at my first attempt at a university degree. I had no idea what I was doing, what […]
4 Best Things About…English And Creative Writing
We all know the cliché about English degrees: the author writes that the curtains are blue and it symbolises the internal woe of the character, or they’re red curtains and it’s a Freudian symbol for motherhood […]