Undergraduate Student Story: Illustration
Adam’s certainly not short of inspiration as he studies illustration in the picturesque city of Cardiff… Name: Adam Travers Course: BA (Hons) Illustration Institution: Cardiff School of Art & Design, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff 'I’m in my third year of study here. I looked at several art schools, but this one stood out because you don’t already need to know everything. You can come to CSAD with a bit of skill and expand on that. There are quite  a few famous success stories from Cardiff as well – it’s...

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...