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PUSH Guide to Which University
The Push Guide to Which University is the UK's leading guide to higher education and student life. It features institution-by-institution profiles providing prospective students with all the facts, figures and advice to make the right choice of university, all written in a humorous, accessible and ruthlessly independent style. * The Guide provides crucial profiles on courses, costs, entrance requirements, job prospects, accommodation, entertainments, welfare and sports facilities available at every campus in the UK. * The Push Guide is unique in that it is the only truly independent guide that visits every university in the UK every year. * 'Like it is' advice on how to choose the right university and how to get a place by making the most of the application system. * Statistical tables and top tens comparing universities on a wide and exclusive range of key criteria. * New edition contains over 20,000 updates and new updated design. * The content is supported by further information and updates on Push Online at www.push.co.uk. * Since its launch in 1993, The Push Guide has gained the loyalty of students, parents, teachers and careers advisors. Now in its twelfth edition, it is the leading resource for reliable, lively and unbiased information on universities today. * For the first time, the Guide is published in association with The Independent Newspaper, which will provide excellent marketing and promotional support. The Push Guides tell students the real story and tell it straight. All guides are written and researched by students and recent graduates, with a unique team of on-the-ground student researchers interviewing thousands of students every year about the real issues that concern them. It is the indispensable guide to what university will really be like.
768 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2006
About the author
Tim Footman
21Ìýbooks2ÌýfollowersTim Footman (born 1968) is an English author, journalist and editor. He was educated at Churcher's College, Appleby College in Canada, the University of Exeter, and Birkbeck University.
He is the author of a number of books about popular music, including Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album, a study of Radiohead's groundbreaking 1997 album OK Computer and its impact on contemporary music. He also contributed a chapter on Baudrillard and Radiohead to the volume Radiohead and Philosophy. His most recent books are The Noughties 2000-2009: A Decade That Changed the World and Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah - A New Biography.
His work has appeared in The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Prospect, the Bangkok Post, The National, the Sunday Post, Yorkshire Post, BBC Online, CNNGo, Drowned in Sound, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Aeon, Zembla, Twill and the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. He is a contributor to the Guardian's comment website Comment is Free and the Prospect blog First Drafts. He appeared in the BBC2 documentary TV series History of Now (2010) and the Arte documentary film The World According to Radiohead (2019).
From 1999 to 2001, he was the editor of Guinness World Records, during which time its emphasis became markedly more light-hearted. Before this he was editor of the PUSH Guide to University.
He has made appearances on several UK television and radio quiz show including Mastermind, University Challenge, The Weakest Link, Brain of Britain, Counterpoint and Win Beadle's Money.
He is the author of a number of books about popular music, including Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album, a study of Radiohead's groundbreaking 1997 album OK Computer and its impact on contemporary music. He also contributed a chapter on Baudrillard and Radiohead to the volume Radiohead and Philosophy. His most recent books are The Noughties 2000-2009: A Decade That Changed the World and Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah - A New Biography.
His work has appeared in The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Prospect, the Bangkok Post, The National, the Sunday Post, Yorkshire Post, BBC Online, CNNGo, Drowned in Sound, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Aeon, Zembla, Twill and the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. He is a contributor to the Guardian's comment website Comment is Free and the Prospect blog First Drafts. He appeared in the BBC2 documentary TV series History of Now (2010) and the Arte documentary film The World According to Radiohead (2019).
From 1999 to 2001, he was the editor of Guinness World Records, during which time its emphasis became markedly more light-hearted. Before this he was editor of the PUSH Guide to University.
He has made appearances on several UK television and radio quiz show including Mastermind, University Challenge, The Weakest Link, Brain of Britain, Counterpoint and Win Beadle's Money.
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