About us and quick guide
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About us and quick guide
Quick guide
Use the site map for an overview or go straight to the section you need. If you're a practitioner providing advice to clients and students, please use our 
Learning Opportunities handout to raise awareness of the service.
Learning opportunities
- Study choices - where and what to study; fitting study around work and family; apprenticeships and routes to higher education
- Information sheets about all aspects of higher education, especially those that affect adult learners
- Financial help for study - details of grants, bursaries and so on
- Foundation Degrees in the South East - an innovative tool that searches everything available in the South East and links straight through to the course description page
Working opportunities
- Finding employment - job searching advice for the South East
- Redundancy - make the best of it
- Alternatives to uni - alternative work-based routes to higher level skills
- Brighton & Hove Graduate Jobs - opportunities within travelling distance of the city
Enterprise opportunities - Enterprise Gatwick
Thinking about starting your own business? These local and national resources were produced for people living in the Gatwick Diamond area, but even if you live outside that area, they'll still give you some ideas on how to get started.
- Getting going - be inspired, think about things you could do
- Finance and funding - what you can apply for and how to manage your finances
- Rules and regulations - all the legal stuff like insurance, health & safety, tax and VAT
- Growing your business - networking, marketing and using your local universities for expertise
Career Planning
Tools for career planning that is the link between opportunities for work and learning.
Ask a question
Type a question into the free text box on the right to access our database. If you can't find what you need 
email us
Personal planning pack
When you've finished browsing, use the personal planning pack to automatically gather together the questions you've typed in, your choice of information sheets and advice about what to do next. Download it as a personalised pdf to refer to again.
Tell us what you think
We welcome feedback so, if you can't find what you're looking for, need some advice or want to comment on our website just email us
. If you want to know more about the background and development of the service, read the Learning at Work Information Service project report. In November 2009 the Learning Opportunities service won the Institute of Career Guidance national award for supporting adults so you can be confident about our expertise.
About us
The Learning Opportunities service is delivered by Work and Learning Opportunities c.i.c under contract to the University of Brighton.
