Education and career links

• www.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education
  BBC Online Education

• www.brightknowledge.org/
  Bright Knowledge is the essential guide to careers, education and student life

• www.connected-earth.com/learning
  Connected Earth is a collection of learning resources aimed at key stages 2-4 based on science and communications

• www.delni.gov.uk
  Northern Ireland Department for Employment and Learning

• www.education.gov.uk
  Department for Education

• education.guardian.co.uk
  Guardian online

• www.hefce.ac.uk
  Higher Education Funding Council for England

• www.hefcw.ac.uk/
  Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

• http://www.mathscareers.org.uk
  Maths careers

• www.nationalgrideducation.com
  The National Grid education programme ‘School Power’ is an online education programme of engaging facts, presentations, interactive stories, activities and fun experiments around the area of power. The resources are aimed at 4– to 11– year–olds, their teachers and parents

• www.sfc.ac.uk/
  Scottish Higher Education Funding Council

• www.scit.wlv.ac.uk
  Map of all UK universities and research institutes hosted by University of Wolverhampton

• www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/
  Times Higher Education Supplement online

• www.tes.co.uk
  Times Education Supplement online

• www.universitiesuk.ac.uk
  Universities UK

• www.universities-scotland.ac.uk
  Universities Scotland

Career links

• www.bestCourse4me.com
  This website is a user–friendly website designed to help students make those all important university and career choices

• www.engineeringcareers.co.uk/engineering-apprentice/
  Engineering careers – aims to offer useful and interesting information to engineering apprentices, to showcase engineering and manufacturing to school students aged 14 to 16 and point out the wealth of opportunities available through a career in engineering and, more specifically, through a vocational route into industry

• www.engineeringcareers.co.uk/engineering-graduate/
  Engineering on Campus magazine includes interviews, features, commentary on the current engineering world and helpful careers advice. Articles are focused on real-world applications of innovative and recent technological developments, while showcasing the increasing move to combining disciplines in real life

• www.rcuk.ac.uk/careersinresearch
  Research Councils UK (RCUK) careers in research has lots of personal stories from researchers who tell their story about how they became involved in research, what it takes to be a researcher, and their rewarding experiences from their chosen career paths

• www.youngeng.org
  Young Engineers is the national network of science, engineering, electronics and technology clubs in schools and colleges

• www.whynotchemeng.com
  All you need to know about careers in chemical engineering

• www.engineergirl.org
  Ideas, careers info and advice for budding engineers especially girls

• www.agr.org.uk
  Association of Graduate Recruiters

• www.prospects.ac.uk/index.htm
  Higher Education Careers Services Unit

• www.ucas.ac.uk
  Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for the UK

Activities

• www.etrust.org.uk
  The Engineering Education Trust (EDT) provides a range of engineering activities for your people aged 12 to 19+

• www.forumforthefuture.org.uk
  The Academy is partnering with Forum for the Future in a collaborative initiative that will encourage change in the UK engineering profession, so that it can make a positive contribution to sustainability

• www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk
  James Dyson Foundation – a charity that aims to inspire more young people to study engineering and become engineers. They have some free education resources available for schools at this site