Undergraduate Subject Focus: Psychology
The sciences are among the oldest academic subjects, but by their very nature they are also the most cutting edge and are constantly evolving. As new breakthroughs are made each year, science changes and develops and makes for many fascinating areas of study. We take a look at one of the most popular areas, psychology. Psychology Psychology – the study of human behaviour and the mental processes  that cause people to act the way they do – has become one of the most popular subjects for degree-level study. In 2008/09, for example, almost 45,000 students...

Tips and Traps for the First year
We at Hotcourses have our fair share of university experiences between us, so here are some things we wish we’d read before we started the first year of University First year work ethic Being a student requires more careful time management than at school – as well as having lectures scattered all over your timetable, you will be expected to spend a lot of study hours reading and doing assignments, and you will have to organise all this yourself. Whilst this can seem like an annoying distraction from the important first year business of making friends and generally having a good time, it’ll...