Undergraduate Student Story: Construction
Pritesh is enjoying a new project-managing role thanks to his participation in an HNC in Construction at Leicester College… Name: Pritesh Parmar Course: HNC in Construction Institution: Leicester College Pritesh Parmar is studying for his HNC at Leicester College while also working in the industry. Having worked for ten years at Rutland County Council, he wanted to further his knowledge on technical and management issues and gain a recognised qualification. Pritesh has progressed from the role of Building Surveyor to Assistant Project...

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...