by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
WHAT is Peter Mandelson doing lecturing your parents on how to cope with having an unemployed graduate back living at home? He is the Business Secretary. He is NOT a parenting coach, agony aunt or careers adviser. In the latest crushing disappointment for Dude?...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Did you come back to live with your folks after graduating? You’re not alone. The number of ‘boomerang children’ – who go off to uni and then return when they graduate – is on the rise in the UK, say experts. You don’t need to be a...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Grim news reaches Dude – the number of unemployed graduates is expected to break the 100,000 barrier this week. Which means that if you all filed into Wembley Stadium, you would more than fill the place. In fact, 10,000 of you would still be waiting outside....
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Argh, Dude is FRUSTRATED! I’m considering picketing the House of Commons, fashioning a giant yellow sign that reads “FOR GOD’S SAKE! GIVE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES BETTER CAREER ADVICE!” Although there are signs that business secretary Peter...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know it doesn’t feel like it, but Dude fans have friends in high places, battling for you right now. And some of them, I suspect, have been reading their very own copy of Dude. In what I’d feared could be a giant yawn of a lecture last week at...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Dude is puzzled by news that the Government is planning to encourage kids to start planning their career at primary school. “If I don’t know what I’m going to end up doing ‘When I grow up’, how on earth is a 10-year-old meant to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Trying to decide on just one career? Yawnsville! …says ground-breaking new book ‘And what do you do? 10 steps to creating a portfolio career’. Authors Barrie Hopson and Katie Ledger reckon more and more people – including new graduates –...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
A moustachioed university chief has suggested a new way to fund higher education – by scrapping tuition fees. If adopted, the egghead’s ‘Learn now, pay later’ brainwave could be a lifeline to school leavers keen to continue studying but worried...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Finding yourself jobless after three years at university – and thousands of pounds of investment – can make a person kind of cross. One unemployed graduate knows exactly who to take her anger out on. She has decided to sue her university. Trina Thompson...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Could this be the start of a revolution? It seems that at long last some big companies are speaking out, breaking the shock news that… Not all graduates doing work experience are complete morons after all. In a top secret lab in northern Siberia, expert...
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