This section is aimed at student journalists who write regularly about student experiences and opportunities.

It contains resources for your coverage of university life and career-oriented news/features throughout the year. In short, it lets you discover the motivations and expectations of your fellow students.

Some of the issues addressed by Futuretrack include:

• routes into Higher Education (HE) by ethnicity
• how students choose their courses and their universities
• students’ expectations of debt
• how students plan to fund their university education.

If you’d like to use these resources in your student newspaper, see the zipped files below. In each one, you’ll find an illustrator .eps, a hi-res cmyk .jpg and a Word document that contains copy that you can uses to explain the graphs correctly.

You may not use this information without our prior permission. Please contact us before publishing.

If you’ve any questions then please contact Clare Schofield:
T: 0161 2775 302
E: c.scofield@prospects.ac.uk
cc: webmaster@futuretrack.ac.uk

or Jane Artess, HECSU Director of Research
t: +44 (0)161 2775 208
e: j.artess@prospects.ac.uk

Differences in routes into full-time higher education, by ethnicity

Do you know where you’re going and how to get here?

First-year students’ reasons for choosing their university or college

First-year students’ reasons for deciding upon a particular course

How first-year students plan to fund their higher education

First year students’ expectation of debts at the end of their course

Student quotes about what university means to them

Biographies and Futuretrack spokespersons