Undergraduate Subject Focus: Computer Science
Shaking off its geeky image, computer science at higher education level is a creative and wide-ranging area of study. Cooler still, graduates are sought-after and job prospects excellent. A degree in computer science or a related subject could lead to a broad range of career options, from finance and e-commerce to computer gaming, multimedia and telecommunications. Computers are an essential element in every area of business and commerce. Hospitals, hotels, airports, offices, retail chains – any enterprise you can think of, no matter where in the world, has a computer...

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...