Finding the right accommodation isn’t always easy for students. In this blog, we give you some simple tips to help you find the right accommodation.

We reveal one of the cheapest phone deals to call overseas and Broadband Internet plans.

Teritary students will receive less discounts on upfront HECS payments from next year.

Find out the top job hunting tips for recent graduates and students. How to network, prepare resume and do pschychometric tests.

Sony announced a freebie PlayStation game package to welcome back customers when its Play Station Store is back up. It is an attempt to placate angry customers after a massive data breach on its network for several weeks

With the Australian dollar riding high, it becomes very expensive for overseas students to study abroad in Australia. We review the current tuition fees and average living costs that a student have to bear each year.

Numerical and psychometric tests are common methods used by large organizations during graduate recruitment.

We have collected some practice tests for you to do here:

eFinancialCareers website has 3 numerical practice tests:  http://students.efinancialcareers.com.au/numerical_test.htm. SHL is a popular test provider for many companies, they have some practice tests here: http://www.shldirect.com/example_questions.html.  Some more practice tests are: http://www.psychometricinstitute.co.uk/http://www.psychometricinstitute.co.uk/Free-Aptitude-Tests.asp   http://www.psychometricinstitute.com.au/Free-Aptitude-Tests.asp ...

Companies for IT graduates or professionals

 

The government website for studying in Australia: http://studyinaustralia.gov.au

It has multiple languages ranging from English, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesian to Chinese and Vietnamese. It provides general information about the lifestyle, education system, English courses, scholarships and estimated living expenses in Australia.

 

This is an Australian site of a global website called International Student http://australia.internationalstudent.com/ . Apart from offering general guide for students to study abroad around the globe, it advertises some products and services to students such as phone cards, insurance and travelling.

 

National Union of Students (NUS): http://www.unistudent.com.au/site/ This site is built for the benefits of students of many kinds: women students, indigenous students, international students,...

 

Most of us are enjoying the summer break with lots of festivals and activities across different cities in Australia. But February is approaching and most universities around Australia start their Autumn semester in late February. It might be the perfect time for you to go through your pile of text books from last semester, you could sell them to other students and save some money for your next textbook purchase for new subjects. StudentBees's "Things For Sale" section is designed just for that, you could post your second-hand textbooks on there for free of charge, but you need to register first.