Education and Employment Links
Higher Education Student Support
The UK government website. For students, parents and other advisors, and higher education establishments. There is also assistance for students with disabilities. Also, there are a few links to other external sites, including Scholarship Search UK.
Jobseekers
Find work or training, whatever your age. It also gives information on the qualifications needed for different careers and related information, such as benefits, child care, professional bodies.
Skill
This is the Website of Skill, an organisation that promotes opportunites for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
Finance Links
Department of Work and Pensions
Exchange Rates
A comprehensive listing of World exchange rates, including a calculator. A list of UK exchange rates is also available.
Financial Times
Financial News and Information.
Find
UK Financial Services Search Engine.
H M Revenue & Customs
A comprehensive site for all tax matters. Self-assessment forms and information available in PDF format. However, the Internet-based tax return requires javascript.
House Price Index
From the Land Registry
Money Supermarket
Bond Rates
House Price Lookup
Search every price paid, for every property sold, anywhere in England, Scotland and Wales for free.
Moneyworld
Financial Information Pages and historical information.
RPI
From the Office of National Statistics
RPIX
From the Office of National Statistics (excludes mortgages)
This Is Money
Shares, gilts and unit trust prices and other financial information. Students and potential students should look at the student pages on the site. Bond Rates pages.
Also a list of linked deposit takers for the purposes of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). A company may be listed alone or as part of a group. You may find that deposits with two apparently separate companies will be grouped together for the purposes of the scheme, or two companies within a group registered separately. The guarantee of £50,000 relates to a single registration with the FSCS.
Trustnet
Information on Unit Trusts and OEICS
UK Company news
Limited financial information is available, but more detailed information requires registration. Some links cannot be found and Press Releases not updated regularly.
Yahoo!Finance
The UK version.
Medical Links
The Dyspraxia Foundation
Few graphics, neatly laid out. Very imaginative and creative use of style sheets.
Obtaining a Disabled Student Allowance
Our experience of obtaining a Disabled Student Allowance.
Stockport NHS Community
A comprehensive resource detailing local information on hospitals, GPs, dentists, pharmacists etc.
News & Information Links
News
BBC News
BBC News
See how the news changes over time!
BBC World Service
World Service news reporting can sometimes be more informative than UK-based BBC News.
The Guardian
The on-line version of the national newspaper.
News Now
Links to a huge variety of news media, from the UK and abroad, updated every 5 minutes.
Other Information
Government information service
A very comprehensive site.
WaybackMachine
Have you gone to a web page only to find the page has changed and the information you are looking for is not there? Maybe the page does not exist any more? This site archives other sites. If what you are looking for was ever out there, you may find it here. All you need is the URL.
Underground Weather
A neat image giving the current temperature (and time of the forecast) in Manchester, UK. Click on the image for more detailed weather information and a forecast for the next few days.
Local Weather for Stockport from Multimap
An alternative slant on the weather.
Mapquest UK
Comprehensive street maps - and they can even be personalised by adding captions and comments.
Telephone Directory
This on-line directory is free from BT
