Campus tricks: Top websites for students

The UK's largest student community - thestudentroom.co.uk

Got any questions about uni life? Then the place to visit is thestudentroom.co.uk,where you can get help with life's big and small decisions from otherstudents.

During Freshers week find out what tasty cocktail recipesstudents are mixing up at their unis and the next day get a sure firehangover cure!

Discover how students are managing their budgets; maybethey can pass some good tips to you?

Perhaps you want to anonymouslyget advice over a personal issue?

Once work starts you can get helpwith your assignments from other students on your course.

Studying,socialising and sex - this website has the answers for whatever youneed to know.

Use your skills to earn money - studentgems.com

It's now a fact of life that students face leaving uni in debt.

Many take on part time jobs to help pay their way through their coursedoing traditional 'student jobs' such as pulling pints.

An alternativeis to use your skills to earn money at a higher rate and gain valuablework experience.

You can do this by creating a profile on studentgems.com.

The site matches your skills with the requirements of businesses andprivate individuals for one-off jobs and project work.

There are over1600 different skills to choose from ranging from entertainment tocoaching, illustrating to research, web designing to translations.

You've got skills, use them to earn money!

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Ultimate online student money bible - wealthystudent.co.uk

At wealthystudent.co.ukthe aim is to help students leave university with money in the bank.

Applying the advice offered both on-site and via a free book, this canbe achieved.

At the present moment this site is signing up local andnational businesses to offer students further discounts to keep theirweekly budget as low as possible.

It has only been around for a fewmonths but the response to the site has been phenomenal.

Already over2,000 people have downloaded the free book and this number is expectedto reach over 10,000 by the middle of October.

With a strong team of studentwriters, passion and knowledge of money, wealthystudent.co.uk is hereto stay.

Now that you know where to earn and how to save money, howabout starting a club or society or managing your existing one moreefficiently...? [-[quote]-]

Manage your club or society - www.groupspaces.com

GroupSpaces ischanging the way student clubs and societies manage themselves online.

You can use the revolutionary new platform to manage your club orsociety's mailing lists, membership databases, websites, file sharing,polls/surveys and more.

GroupSpaces has been developed with the inputfrom hundreds of groups at UK universitiesover the last year and will be coming to your university for 2008/9.

Ifyou have a group that needs managing - whether you're currently atuniversity or not - go to groupspaces.com to start saving yourself time today.

All this starting up and managing societies can work up an appetite! Therefore here is...

Cheap, easy recipes and tips - beyondbakedbeans.com

Beyond Baked Beans is the site to visit if you want recipes and healthy eating ideas that are tailor made for the student lifestyle.

It was started by Fiona Beckett, author of the Beyond Baked Beanscookery books but now carries contributions from students who can earnreward points for every recipe, tip or cooking video they post.

If youcan write an essay you can follow a recipe!

While you are tucking intoa fine lasagne, you may well be considering your living arrangementsif/when you move out of halls, so here's how to...

Find your perfect student house - www.liveout.co.uk

Arrived at uni? So you know that in weeks you'll probably have to starthouse-hunting?!

A task once famed for daunting students and taking daystraipsing in the rain.

Now, student-founded LiveOut.co.uk makes iteasy!

Search and compare 4,000 student houses online- that's 90-95% of letting agent student properties in Oxford, Coventryand Leamington, and over 1,600 in London.

And if you're ultra-lazy,book instant property viewings online, or even reserve a property(saving up to £100!), through LiveOut's revolutionary FastFind service.

LiveOut keepsyou safe by manually verifying all landlords and meeting all agents.

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Placement & Internship reviews and jobs at ratemyplacement.co.uk

RateMyPlacement.co.uk is an online resource containing hundreds ofstudent written reviews on employers in a wide range of industries andlocations.

Alongside the reviews, students can browse the latest jobs,read through advice pages and interact with each other to find theplacement or internship that is right for them.

The rising cost ofgraduate recruitment together with the well publicised skills shortageamongst today's graduates has meant that increasing numbers ofemployers are turning to work placements and internships as a method ofreaching the best student talent before they graduate.

RateMyPlacement.co.ukhas capitalised on this shift and fills the information gap thatpreviously existed.

Having got a future internship organised, you mayhave earned money and paid some tax which you can claim back...

Turn overpaid tax into cash - taxdoctor.co.uk

With the average student debt now pushing £17,500 more students thanever are being forced to work part-time.

When they work they often paytax - many studentsend up paying much more than they should.

The taxdoctor.co.uk takesaway the hassle and stress of claiming tax refunds from HMRC.

They willwrite to your employer for missing documents and deal with the dreadedtax man from start, right up until the money is sitting in your bankaccount.

They charge a low fee based on the amount of refund that isobtained, if you have all your documents it's just 7.5% and it's10% ifthey need to contact your employer.

If you don't fancy tackling yourtax refund claim on your own why not visit the doctor, taxdoctor.co.uk.

So that's the boring (but necessary) bit done, now for your social life...

Social networking - facebook.com

It goes with the territory; an intrinsic part of student lifeis a Facebook profile.

However, this should come with a word or two ofwarning, get your privacy settings locked down to the point that onlyyour friends can see what you are doing.

Your social life should bekept quite separate from your business life.

If you don't separatethem, you may well live to regret that publicly displayed photo of youwith 'PORN' written up your arm in indelible ink, whilst wearingpsychedelic jewellery at the Full Moon Party.

It may not go down wellin the HR department of the company where you are trying to get thatinternship to die for.

A few ticks in your privacy settings will makesure you are not publicly visible to the world and his wife, aka theWorld Wide Web, or worse still - your mother!

But how to makeyour money last..?

2-for-1 cinema tickets, meal deals & more - studentbeans.com

This Top 10 wouldn't be complete without studentbeans.com, the UK's leading student offers website!

As you know, it provides students with free access to hundreds of discount vouchersto help them enjoy a busy social life on a student budget.

As well asgiving students cheap deals, it is the home of online magazine TheBeanzine, an indispensable guide to university life.

This magazinehelps students stay in the know and alleviate the boredom betweenlectures.

Launched by two entrepreneurial graduates who wanted to helpstudents relieve the financial burden of studying, the site is nowessential for those who want their money to stretch further.