Useful Links
National Aimhigher website
Higher Education can open up new career options and help you find your dream job. What’s more, you’ll immerse yourself in a subject you love, having new experiences and meeting new people. The Aimhigher programme is there to help make more people aware of what Higher Education is all about.
Help You Choose
Help you choose is Norfolk's 14 to 19 prospectus website and Common Application Process. You can use help you choose to find out about courses, training and jobs in your area. You can also apply online to sixth form or college courses.
Did you know you can use help you choose to:
- Find out about careers?
- Get information on qualifications, Apprenticeships, finding a job and more?
- Find out when sixth form and college open days are?
- Sign up for free texts or emails about new job vacancies?
Student Finance England
If you’re going into Higher Education, you can get financial support from the government. Apply through the Student Finance England service.
Connexions Norfolk
Connexions is for you if you are aged 13 to 19, living in England and wanting advice on getting to where you want to be in life.
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
UCAS is a central organisation through which applications are processed for entry to Higher Education. Includes information and services for prospective students, their parents or carers, teachers and HE staff.
The Learning Shop
The Learning Shop is a one-stop-shop for advice and guidance on education and training in Norfolk. The friendly and knowledgeable staff have many years of first-hand experience of the educational opportunities in Norwich and Norfolk. They can help you in all sorts of ways. The Learning Shop keeps information about more than 200 local organisations that offer education and training.
The College of West Anglia
The College of West Anglia offers a range of Further and Higher Education courses across a wide variety of subjects. The college is based across our four campuses in the Eastern region: King's Lynn, Isle, Wisbech and Cambridge (Milton), and local learning centres.
Norwich University College of the Arts
Norwich University College of the Arts is a dynamic, modern and creative community providing art, design and media education from a unique campus at the heart of the city of Norwich.
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is an internationally-renowned university based in a Norwich campus that provides top quality academic, social and cultural facilities. The University of East Anglia offers more than 300 courses to over 13,000 students.
City College Norwich
City College Norwich is one of the biggest providers of Higher Education in the area, with a good range of Acces, HNC, HND, Foundation and Honours Degrees and postgraduate programmes on offer. The college welcomes people from all walks of life and the campus, just ten minutes' walk from the centre of Norwich, has a friendly, welcoming feel.
Easton College
Everyone should have the opportunity to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential. There are many excellent facilities at Easton College that will enable you to do this. The College is located seven miles west of Norwich, set in over 200 hectares of idyllic farmland and countryside.
The main focus of the college is on vocational courses with qualifications such as First and National Diplomas, as well as Foundation Degrees and modern apprenticeships. With vocational courses the main emphasis is on ‘hands-on’ practical work, combined with classroom-based activity. Work experience and placements form an integral part of your education and are undertaken in most curriculum areas, and you will benefit from external trips linked to your area of study.
The Open University
Part-time Higher Education, supported distance and open learning for undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications.
Great Yarmouth College
Great Yarmouth College offers study opportunities from entry to degree level.
On the campus you will find everyone from 14 year-old high school pupils on one of the highly successful 14 to 16 programmes, to school leavers on all level of Further Education courses, from entry to BTEC National Diploma level, to adults returning to learning, apprentices on day release courses and degree students.
There are also employees on specialist training courses, students on new foundation degree courses, Entry to Employment (E2E) students and adults training part-time for a career change.