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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Does a degree really helps graduates’ long-term career prospects? It seems the debate rumbles on, with fresh stats announced today. When Hesa (the Higher Education Statistics Authority) caught up with graduates who graduated in 2005, they discovered that:...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’ve just graduated and are now jobless, do you feel university was: a) A wise investment that will come good in the end. You’d advise everyone to go. OR b) A bad investment that will that will never ‘pay out’? You’d advise people to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
No! Say it isn’t so!!! Sad news reaches Dude that my favourite London freesheet newspaper is set to close. Having written more than 35 articles for thelondonpaper over the last couple of years (while wearing my journalism ‘hat’), I’m not only...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yes, being jobless sucks. And, when you’re slogging away doing applications, it’s easy to glamorise gainful employment. But Dude’s Army should remember: HAVING a job isn’t a bowl of cherries right now either. New stats show frazzled employees...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Things a bit strained between you and your folks? Are they hovering around, trying to be helpful but actually being annoying? Are you slamming doors and doing your best ‘sulky teen’ impression at the dinner table? Thought so. After uni, coming back to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’ve found this blog, you’ve probably been spluttering for a while over reports that the recession is over. ‘It is? Then where’s my freakin’ job?!’ you ask. Dude? reckons its graduates are one of the main groups of...
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