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Career finding advice from a Rolls Royce apprentice
22 May 2019
UCAS' Career Finder is a searchable database of work and training opportunities – ideal for those considering their options after education.
All over the place – when and how to target postgrad students
15 May 2019
Your typical postgraduate lecture is diverse. There are working mums, retired city workers, ambitious undergraduates, and everything in between. With so much variety, how are you supposed to target...
Case study: The Society of Radiographers
25 Apr 2019
We used UCAS Media for an email campaign to all placed Radiography students.
What matters, matters – understanding what drives the postgraduate study decision
23 Apr 2019
It doesn’t take a PhD to know why medical students go to university. But fully understanding the motivation of a philosophy postgraduate is a little different. The same goes for economics, classics,...
Case study: BCS Computer Teaching Scholarships campaign
29 Mar 2019
We decided to use UCAS Media to raise awareness of our teacher training scholarships to those interested in teaching computing at secondary level.
Unfashionably late: Has higher education woken up to the power of data?
14 Mar 2019
Businesses driven by data strategies are nothing new. The commercial sectors have been leveraging high volumes of information for decades. Amazon’s monumental growth is largely down to its...
Homeward bound: How students are getting around
25 Feb 2019
Whether it's the last bus from town, or a long train ride to the home town, students are perpetually on the move. Besides finding the cheapest ticket, what influences how and when they travel?
The adventure generation: Gap years and holidays
18 Feb 2019
Big numbers of students dedicate big budgets to their pre-university travels. With so much to plan and purchase, the decision-making and guidance for students looking to travel is a complex process....
Seismic shifts: How social media usage has changed
05 Feb 2019
Facebook has been the driving force of social media for more than a decade, but we've seen a big change over the past couple of years. As one of the most responsive demographics, when students decide...
Tech Talks: What influences student purchases?
23 Jan 2019
We asked students what the most important factors were for them, when it comes to their tech.