Undergraduate Subject Focus: Medicine
The UK’s health sector employs around two million people, with around 75 per cent of these working for the NHS. As the world’s largest publicly funded health service, the NHS has over 300 available careers. The constant demand for suitably trained staff means that there are always opportunities on offer across the NHS and the private and voluntary sectors for medicine graduates. There is a vast choice of health-related courses on offer in the UK – in 2008/09, a whopping 188,885 students were enrolled on undergraduate programmes in medicine, dentistry and...

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...