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

University choices with Unistats

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

Browse data on the course pages to find out more about individual courses

How to use UnistatsData

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

Further resources