Cheap, easy recipes and tips

Beyond Baked Beans is the site to visit if you want recipes and healthy eating ideas that are tailor made for the student lifestyle. Now in its fifth year it was started by Fiona Beckett, author of the Beyond Baked Beans cookery books but now carries contributions from students who can earn reward points for every recipe, tip or cooking video they post. As we always say, if you can write an essay you can follow a recipe...

"A great website. If you're stuck for ideas on what to cook on a budget this is the place to look." Annalisa Barbieri, The Guardian.

Visit website: www.beyondbakedbeans.com

Placement & Internship reviews and jobs

RateMyPlacement.co.uk is the UK's number one online resource for students who are searching for work placements or internships. The website, set up by four Loughborough University graduates, contains hundreds of student written reviews on employers in a wide range of industries and locations. Alongside the reviews, students can browse the latest jobs, read through advice pages and interact with each other to find the placement or internship that is right for them.

The rising cost of graduate recruitment together with the well publicised skills shortage amongst today's graduates has meant that increasing numbers of employers are turning to work placements and internships as a method of reaching the best student talent before they graduate. RateMyPlacement.co.uk has capitalised on this shift and fills the information gap that previously existed.

Visit website: www.ratemyplacement.co.uk

Manage your club or society

GroupSpaces is changing the way student clubs and societies manage themselves online. You can use the revolutionary new platform to manage your club or society's mailing lists, membership databases, websites, file sharing, polls/surveys and more. GroupSpaces has been developed with the input from hundreds of groups at UK universities over the last year and will be coming to your university for 2008/9.

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

Visit website: groupspaces.com

2-for-1 cinema tickets, meal deals & more

Studentbeans.com is a one-stop-shop to help students stretch their loans and make the most of their time at university. It provides students with free access to hundreds of discount vouchers to help them enjoy a busy social life on a student budget.

As well as giving students cheap deals, studentbeans.com is also the home of online magazine The Beanzine, an indispensable guide to university life. This lifestyle magazine helps students stay in the know and alleviate the boredom between lectures.

Launched by two entrepreneurial graduates who wanted to help students relieve the financial burden of studying, the site is now an essential and much-loved part of university life for hundreds of thousands of students - just like the student favourite baked beans.

Visit website: www.studentbeans.com

Use your skills to earn money

It's now a fact of life that students face the prospect of leaving uni with considerable debt. Many take on part time jobs to help pay their way through their course doing traditional 'student jobs' such as cleaning, waiting on tables or pulling pints. An alternative is to use your existing skills to earn money at a much higher rate and gain valuable work experience at the same time.

You can do this by getting yourself a profile on www.studentgems.com. The site matches your skills with the requirements of businesses and private individuals for one off jobs and project work. There are over 1600 different skills and services to choose from ranging from entertainment to coaching, illustrating to research, web designing to translations. You've got skills, use them to earn money!

Visit website: www.studentgems.com

Find your perfect student house

Arrived at uni? So you know that in weeks you'll probably have to start house-hunting?! A task once famed for daunting students and taking days of walking in the rain...

Now, student-founded LiveOut.co.uk makes it easy! Search and compare 4,000 student houses online - that's 90-95% of letting agent student properties in Oxford, Coventry and Leamington, and over 1,600 in London.

No other student portal indexes more property than us in any city we are in. Best of all, LiveOut launches across the UK this year.

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 keeps you safe by manually verifying all landlords and meeting all letting agents.

Visit website: www.liveout.co.uk

Ultimate online student money bible

At wealthystudent.co.uki our aim is to help students leave university with money in the bank. Applying the advice that we offer on our site and also in the free book we give away on the site can achieve this. At the present moment we are signing up local and national businesses to offer students further discounts to keep their weekly budget as low as possible.

We've only been around for a few months but the response to the site has been phenomenal. We already have over 2,000 people who've downloaded the free book and we expect this number to reach over 10,000 by the middle of October. With a strong team of student writers, passion and knowledge of money, wealthystudent.co.uk is here to stay.

Visit website: www.wealthystudent.co.uk

Turn overpaid tax into cash

With the average student debt now pushing 17,500 more students than ever are being forced to work part time. When they work they often pay tax - many students end up paying much more than they should.

taxdoctor.co.uk takes away the hassle and stress of claiming this tax refund from HMRC. They will write to your employer for missing documents and deal with the dreaded tax man from start, right up until the money is sitting in your bank account.

They charge a low fee based on the amount of refund that is obtained, if you have all your documents it's just 7.5% and it's 10% if they need to contact your employer. If you don't fancy tackling your tax refund claim on your own why not visit the doctor, www.taxdoctor.co.uk.

Visit website: www.taxdoctor.co.uk

The UK's largest student community

The Student Room is the UK's largest student website where you can get help with life's big and small decisions from other students. During Freshers week find out what tasty cocktail recipes other students are mixing up at their unis, the next day get a sure fire hangover cure! Find out how other students are managing their budgets, maybe they can pass some good tips to you? Perhaps you want to anonymously get advice with a sensitive personal issue? When the work starts you can get help with your assignments from other students doing your course. Studying, Socialising and Sex - Whatever you want to get advice on, whatever you're looking for, there's something on The Student Room for you.

Visit website: www.thestudentroom.co.uk