Undergraduate Subject Focus: Why Architecture?
The UK’s buildings are a fusion of history and modernity, architectural heritage blended with cutting-edge contemporary design creating an exciting and eclectic landscape. Architects continue to push boundaries with materials and innovative concepts to make the country’s new buildings commercially viable, energy efficient and visually striking while urban planners ensure that places and spaces are used to their best advantage.   The UK has a global reputation for architecture and innovative and iconic buildings continue to appear in urban and rural locations...

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...