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. Display ads are coming too. Mediavine has accepted us onto its Journey programme, and once it's switched on (it isn't yet) some pages will carry ads that its network picks, not us. We haven't published a sponsored article; if we ever do, it'll say "Sponsored" at the top. We don't sell reader data, and apart from a sponsor checking a labelled sponsored piece, no advertiser sees anything before it goes live.

Links we've set up through Amazon or Awin are marked with a small star, and there's a plain line nearby saying such links may help fund the site. Skimlinks works differently: it runs across the site and can earn from an ordinary link to a shop, so not every link that pays us has a star. The affiliate disclosure explains it.

Names on the work

Every article carries a named editor, and each editor covers one subject. 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.