Home - Useful Websites

Another superb site for aspiring medics, including a downloadable guide to applying, with a list of every medical school and their precise grade requirements. Just make sure you check to see if it’s been updated for 2008, as it was still aimed at 2007 last time I looked.

NMAS: http://www.nmas.ac.uk/

Nursing and midwifery

CDS: http://www.drama.ac.uk/

Drama schools site

Unofficial Guides: http://www.unnoficial-guides.com

Unofficial guides to universities and other advice

Open Days: http://www.opendays.com

Useful list of university open days

Guardian: http://www.education.guardian.co.uk

Use with care

Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/education

Use with care

Independent: http://www.education.independent.co.uk/higher

Use with care

University Admissions Tests

UKCAT: http://www.ukcat.ac.uk

For medics and dentists

BMAT: http://www.bmat.org.uk

For medics and vets

LNAT: http://www.lnat.ac.uk

Law

uniTEST: http://www.unitest.org.uk

Generic admissions test, assessing reasoning and critical thinking skills, for use in the admissions process in a range of institutions and for a variety of courses.

HAT: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/prosundergrad/applying/hat_introduction.htm

For history applicants to Oxford

MML: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/apply/guideapplyafter.html#test

Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge

STEP: http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/tests/step.html

Mathematics at Cambridge

TSA: http://tsa.ucles.org.uk/index.html

Mainly Computer Science, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Economics at Cambridge

Student Finance

Aimhigher: http://www.aimhigher.ac.uk/student_finance/index.cfm

You’ll find lots of useful info here, and not just about finance.

Directgov: http://www.direct.gov.uk/EducationAndLearning/UniversityAndHigherEducation/StudentFinance/fs/en

Government site. You’ll find lots of useful info here, and not just about careers.

UCAS: http://www.ucas.co.uk/studentfinance

Studentdirect: http://www.studentsupportdirect.co.uk/

SLC: http://www.slc.co.uk/index.html

Student loans.

Support4learning:http://www.support4learning.org.uk/money/index.cfm

You’ll find lots of useful info here, and not just about finance.

Scholarship: http://www.scholarship-search.org.uk/

Funderfinder: http://www.funderfinder.org.uk

Some info and links on funding

Careers

Aimhigher: http://www.aimhigher.ac.uk/careers___guidance/index.cfm

You’ll find lots of useful info here, and not just about careers.

Connexions: http://www.connexions-direct.com/index.cfm?go=Careers

National site. You’ll find lots of useful info here, and not just about careers.

Connexions: http://www.connx.org.uk/

Bedfordshire site.

Gateway: http://www.careers-gateway.co.uk/mainpage.htm

Useful info and links

Careers portal: http://www.trotman.co.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=13

Useful info and links

Careers a-z: http://www.careersa-z.co.uk/

Useful info and links

Gap Year

Year out group: http://www.yearoutgroup.org

Advice on gap years for students and parents

Year in Industry: http://www.yini.org.uk

Information on degree relevant work experience

Bunac: http://www.bunac.org

Work and teaching experience abroad

CSV: http://www.csv.org.uk

Community Service Volunteers

Gap Year: http://www.gapyear.com

Advice on gap years.

Foreign Office: http://www.fco.gov.uk

Click on travel advice button

The Site: http://www.thesite.org.uk

Charity site - general advice

Camp America: http://www.campamerica.co.uk

American summer camps

Study Abroad

Sites with help on studying abroad.

Braintrack: http://www.braintrack.com

Careers Europe: http://www.careerseurope.co.uk

Erasmus: http://www.eurochoice.org.uk

Eurochoice: http://www.csv.org.uk

Fulbright: http://www.fulbright.co.uk

Studylink: http://www.studylink.com

Subjects

Not all departments/sites represented here. For full details, check the Sharnbrook website.

How to Log In to the School Site:

1. Go to the school site on your browser: http://www.sharnbrook.beds.sch.uk

2. Click on the Sign In button in the top left corner of the school’s main page.

3. Type sharnbrook\ followed by your usual school username (with no spaces) in the Username box that appears:

e.g. sharnbrook\97jsmith

You can type your school e-mail address into this box instead, if you’re unsure.

e.g. 97jsmith@sharnbrook.beds.sch.uk

4. Type your usual school password into the Password box underneath it.

5. Click on OK.

You’re in! Then you just need to navigate to the pages you’re after.

BUT…

…remember, if you’re looking for a particular subject’s resources, you have to navigate to their main page and then look in the bottom right-hand corner where you’ll find a very small link called: Go to this area’s learning portal. You need to click on that so that you can access that department’s pages.