by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
BUT COULD TOUGH-GUY TACTICS BE A BAD MOVE FOR GRADUATES? Graduate Fog welcomes RightsForInterns, a new website which aims to clarify the murky matter of unpaid interns’ legal rights. Created by the Trade Union Congress (the TUC – which battles for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
‘BIGGER FEES SHOULD MEAN BETTER VALUE’ INSIST UNDERGRADS Was your degree worth the cash? How often did you see your tutors – and were your lecturers any good? This week, underwhelmed undergraduates fired a deafening warning shot to universities,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
STUDENT MAG SCOOPS WEBSITE LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE Well, that didn’t take long – Graduate Fog has only been live for two days and already we’ve had our first press mention! Fittingly, the first publication to sniff out this nifty new website is a student...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
SHOCK ACCUSATION THAT YOU’RE “USING THE RECESSION AS AN EXCUSE TO TAP THE PARENTAL BANK” Graduate Fog wants to know what planet university careers advisers are living on – because certainly isn’t anywhere near Earth. My jaw hit the floor...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
OR ARE POLITICIANS MAKING PROMISES THEY CAN’T KEEP? Graduate Fog was pleased to see youth unemployment remembered in this week’s Budget announcement. The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, said that an extra £450m would be invested to extend the Future Jobs...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
SURPRISE ‘GOOD NEWS’ FIGURES DISGUISE A LOOMING CRISIS, CRITICS WARN Strange but true – new statistics published this week by the Office of National Statistics say that unemployment is decreasing. They also say employment is decreasing. Now, maths...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
REPORT SHOWS BOSSES WANT EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES – FUNDED BY EVERYONE BUT THEM Have 750 employers just proved themselves to be as cheap as many graduates suspect they are? This week, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) unveiled its ideas for solving the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
GRADUATE FOG DISMAYED AS LIBERAL, LEFTIE NEWSPAPER FAILS TO CONDEMN WORK-FOR-FREE-FIRST CULTURE I fear something is very, very wrong at the Observer. Barbara Ellen’s column this weekend (‘Hey intern, get me a coffee and stop whingeing’) was a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
WORRYING RISE IN BRAIN-BOOSTING DRUGS IN UK UNIVERSITIES, EXPERT REPORTS Disturbing rumours are buzzing around that students are now so anxious about their future they’re using drugs designed to treat ADHD and Alzheimer’s disease to give them the edge at...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
PAID-FOR PLACEMENTS TAKE BRITAIN BACK 30 YEARS, WARNS EXPERT A professor at the London School of Journalism has blasted the practice of paying for work placements, saying a financial trade in career opportunities is ‘unethical’ and gives poorer graduates...
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