Careers
Unifrog Placements tool: FAQs
16th February 2022
Our new Placements tool is already one of our most popular tools ever. It's designed to make it easy to administer work experience, VWEX, work shadowing, T-level placements, internships - any time when a student has sustained direct contact with an employer... Read more >
Your Mossy Earth winner & 'Save the Planet' week
2nd September 2021
Last month, Unifrog teamed up with Mossy Earth to get students voting for one of its rewilding projects. In the spring, we’ll be keeping students involved by hosting our own ‘Save the Planet’ week... Read more >
The evaluation of the North East of England pilot of the Gatsby Benchmarks
26th April 2021
Over the course of four years, the North East of England pilot of the Gatsby Benchmarks tracked the progress of 16 schools and colleges towards meeting the benchmarks, and the impact this had on students... Read more >
Fiction on the Subjects Library
22nd April 2019
The profiles on our Subjects library are full of ideas for exploring topics further, like articles, TED talks and academic books. Now, just in time for World Book Day, we’ve added recommendations for novels to every subject on the Subjects library... Read more >
Q&A - Sales Coordinator Apprentice
29th January 2019
In 2015, Iryna undertook a Sales Coordinator apprenticeship with The Challenge. Since then, she’s received two promotions and now works as an Assistant Account Manager at the same charity... Read more >
Early Decision, Early Action, and Regular Decision
26th June 2017
Nothing in the US application system is straightforward. This article describes the different types of application windows used by different colleges and universities... Read more >
Goals - Getting into a History programme at university
13th June 2017
There are lots of reasons to study History at university: maybe you believe understanding history can help us avoid repeating old mistakes......or perhaps you’ve been gripped by stories of Rosa Parks, Ibn Battuta or Vlad the Impaler... Read more >
Should you encourage school leavers to go to University?
4th April 2017
Sylvia Nankivell explores the pros and cons of encouraging students to go to university. The big question in the heads of many school leavers is “should I go to university?” With increased tuition fees, the normalisation of undergraduate degrees and a financially turbulent job market, the decision is no longer a simple one... Read more >
We now do Destinations Tracking!
14th March 2017
For the last two years we’ve been working on a destinations tracking tool. It’s by far the biggest and most exciting thing we’ve ever done at Unifrog... Read more >
Raising Aspirations, Achieving Potential and Improving Careers Guidance
18th January 2017
Last year at Unifrog we ran our first series of 'Progression Conferences' at schools across the country - the events were focused on careers guidance, post-school destinations and maximising student success... Read more >
Case Study: Cheltenham Bournside College
16th January 2017
Student Impact Unifrog has proved an invaluable tool for providing our students with high quality information, advice and guidance on university and apprenticeships... Read more >
University isn’t for everyone: how to help your students write killer CVs
4th November 2016
University isn’t for everyone: Degree Apprenticeships, School Leaver Programmes, and how to help your students write killer CVs. Our Founder and Director, Alex, gives his thoughts on how to help your students get to their next step... Read more >
Who will your Unifrog Champion be?
25th October 2016
Alex shares how he and his school have successfully embedded Unifrog ito it's careers programme and empowered students to support the delivery. Who will your Unifrog Champion be? We became a Unifrog school last spring and since September have begun using it fully for IAG including for personal statements, UCAS references and from half term we will be rolling it out from Year 9... Read more >
How Students can sustain themselves Financially through University
12th October 2016
[image3] Read on to discover some top tips on how students can finance their way through university. For the 2016 intake of undergraduates, the Student Loans Company will offer a maintenance loan of somewhere between £6,904 and £10,702... Read more >
Data and Destinations
5th June 2016
Beyond 5A*s-C: How schools can bypass meaningless targets and harness the power of destinations data to drive improvement. Hear Chris explaining exciting developments around destinations data at one of Unifrog’s free conferences this summer... Read more >
White Hat: creating better apprenticeships
31st May 2016
We're excited to have Euan Blair of White Hat writing for us about improvements in the structure and delivery of apprenticeships. Creating better apprenticeships As the founder of an apprenticeships business, I spend a significant part of my time trying to identify how we can get schools and employers to engage in a more meaningful way with the apprenticeships agenda... Read more >
Ofsted and the evolution of careers recommendations for schools.
15th May 2016
Adrienne Briggs looks at how Ofsted's recommendations on careers have evolved since responsibility was devolved to schools. Do the changes to the Ofsted framework improve the way that careers advice is delivered within schools? In September 2013, a year after responsibility for careers advice for students aged 14 to 16 had been transferred to schools; Ofsted reported that careers guidance in schools was not working well enough... Read more >
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