university choices with unistats. higher education should you go into higher education? what course...
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Higher Education
•Should you go into Higher Education?
•What course should you do?
•Where should you go?
Introduction(5 minutes)
What questions are still in your mind about Higher Education?
Complete the hand outs in pairsEach of you interview the other
Group work(5 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?
Discussion session(10 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.
Unistats demonstration(15 minutes)
Search for a course
Browse for courses
Browse for universities & colleges
How to use UnistatsFinding a course
Use the filters to refine your search
Browse the available courses through the search results
Choose data to show, to show data for each course
Click on a course to view more statistics about it
How to use UnistatsSearch results
Add courses you are interested in to your Shortlist
Select “Compare courses” to see a comparison of courses in your Shortlist
How to use UnistatsComparing courses
Use the tabs to browse all the categories of data
Print or download your comparison for later reference
How to use UnistatsComparing courses
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
How to use UnistatsCourse assistant
Use this link to register to Unistats
By registering to Unistats you will be able to save your shortlist and be able to access it on other devices
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
How to use UnistatsRegistering
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
Independent research(15 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?
Reflection(10 minutes)
UCAS http://www.ucas.com/Unistats unistats.direct.gov.uk
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