Undergraduate Subject Focus: Law and Legal Studies
We all have a view of lawyers, from personal experience, media news stories, or film and tv – but the realities of studying and working with the law can be very different. While a career in law can bring you status, a good salary and promotion prospects, success requires hard work, good grades, and often long hours. Happily, though, the career opportunities available with a law degree are varied and widespread. Law and legal activity are at the root of all social change, but it’s not just decisions of national interest or importance that are reached through the legal...

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...