Our editorial code

The rules the eight of us work to. If we break one, tell us: hello@unisorted.co.uk.

We wrote this down in July 2026, mostly so readers can hold us to it. The rules themselves are older than the page.

Nobody buys a ranking

Verdicts get set first, against the criteria on our how we rate page. Whether a product has an affiliate deal comes into it afterwards, or never. A product with no deal that's better for students still goes top of the table.

Accuracy

Every rate, threshold, deadline and price gets checked against its primary source on the day it's written, never against another website quoting it. Articles carry a visible "last verified" date, and where we get our information sets out which sources and how often we go back. When a competitor's product is the better call for you, the guide says so. Sometimes the better call is to do nothing and keep what you've got, and we'd rather write that than invent a recommendation.

How the site makes money

Affiliate links. Click one, sign up for the product, and the provider may pay us a commission at no cost to you. The links run through Awin, Amazon's Associates programme and Skimlinks. We don't run sponsored posts or display ads inside guides, and we don't sell reader data. No advertiser reads a guide before it goes live.

Where a link can earn us something, it's marked: a small star next to the link, and a plain line nearby saying such links may help fund the site.

Names on the work

Every article carries a named editor, and each editor owns a beat. Jamie Hartwell has student money; if a bank-account table is wrong, that's his name on it. Tom Okafor has housing, Sophie Chen has applications, and the rest of the desk is on the press page. When we get something wrong we fix it and leave a dated note; corrections explains how that works.