Subject Focus: Which science degree to study?
Of all the scientific disciplines, biology has perhaps made the biggest advances in recent years, and it’s certainly attracted the most attention – reproductive cloning has been used to duplicate animals, and therapies based on stem cells are being used to treat leukaemia. Physics, on the other hand, involves studying things in their simplest forms: atoms, electrons and protons. Chemistry is perhaps the widest-ranging of all sciences and, as it overlaps with biology and physics , as well as medicine , mathematics , geology and materials science , is often called the...

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...