About

What is it? 

The UNIAID Student Life Wiki is an interactive website which allows students to upload and edit content about their town, University, living costs, and much more.

It's here to help students who are thinking of studying in UK higher education to prepare for university life - from freshers through to finals. The Wiki is free to access, and is there to complement the UNIAID International Student Calculator, by enabling students and institutions to provide more localised information on the cost of living in the UK.

Get informed!

Can't decide between Bristol and Birmingham? Want to know the cost of halls in Edinburgh? The Student Life Wiki is there to help you get a feel for University life, and prepare for the cost of study.

The Wiki is free to use - just search by city, institution or topic, and find out what other students have to say about it.

Get involved! 

Adding to the Wiki couldn't be easier. Simply click on 'register' and fill in your details. You'll be sent an activation email - just click on the link and you're ready to go. Once approved, you can add to or edit any of the articles you see on the site.

  • What are the best transport options in your town?

  • Know a great place for bargain shopping?

  • Which bills are included in rent for your University halls?

If you fancy yourself as a student guru, add your words of wisdom to the article of your choice. When you hit 'update' your article will instantly be published in the category you have chosen.

Who? 

Developed by the student finance charity UNIAID in partnership with UKCISA, the Wiki is aimed primarily at International Students - helping them to get a feel for student life across different parts of the UK.

However, it's free for everyone to use, and we also welcome contributions from home students, student representatives, university staff, local businesses, and anyone else! If you've got something to say, we want to hear it.

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Plan and manage your money

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your student budget

Are you a UK resident planning on studying in the UK? Are you an international student planning on studying in the UK?

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UNIAID will be pleased to bring you news of research, products, services or promotions which are either created by us or which we think will be of relevance and interest using the information you have supplied.

Our communications will cover topical news. Additionally we work with a small number of 'carefully selected partners' to negotiate and communicate promotions. These promotions align with UNIAID's Mission to help young people overcome financial hurdles to higher education. These hurdles can include any essential or relevant cost: accommodation, books and equipment, clothes, travel, leisure, insurance etc.. UNIAID aims to help people overcome these hurdles by brokering discounts and offers to students. There will be no more than one communication per month to subscribers.

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The International Student Calculator and UNIAID Student Life Wiki are brought to you by UNIAID, here to help you with student finance, in partnership with UKCISA, the UK Council for International Student Affairs.

The developers, advisers, sponsors, associates, members of the steering group and UNIAID shall accept no responsibility. The UNIAID Student Calculator is intended to give you a sense of the budgetary consequences of your actions and preferences. You are responsible for understanding its limitations.

The UNIAID Student Life Wiki is designed to give you a guide to what life is like in University towns across the UK. It is edited by members of the public and whilst we at UNIAID do our best to keep the information accurate, we cannot make any guarantees about site content that is edited by others.

WARNING: Use these tools at your own risk. We've done our level best to uncover all the best info, insight and top tips to help you, but can't be held responsible in any way for your use or interpretation of this information. UNIAID is independent and impartial. We just try to tell it how it is and hope that this is helpful. UNIAID operates on a shoe string and has no actual cash to give out. Sorry about that last bit.

We hate junk mail and Spam and take the protection of data (ours and yours!) seriously. To read our data policy, click on the 'Privacy policy' link.

We hope that you will enjoy using these tools. If you have any questions or feedback please contact info@uniaid.org.uk.