Research and decision making kills for choosing a university course.

We have all witnessed our sixth form pupils picking up dozens of university prospectuses at HE fairs only to take them home and use them as a door stop! Similarly pupils may spend hours surfing university web sites without recording their findings in a meaningful way.

This unit is designed to help pupils develop their referencing skills, finding the key areas in a prospectus quickly and then developing some system for recording that data so that they can compare courses against each other.

In the second part of the unit pupils are asked to put themselves in the admissions tutors shoes as a way of understanding the process of recruiting or selecting for a course. The skills and qualities that they identify should help with the early stages of preparation for drafting their personal statement.

Download Unit 4.