by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
“UK’S OFFICIAL GRADUATE CAREERS WEBSITE” URGES FEMALE CANDIDATES TO WEAR SKIRTS, NOT TROUSERS, TO JOB INTERVIEWS Are you a female graduate looking for work? Then let the dusty, crusty ‘experts’ at careers website Graduate Prospects...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
AND GRADS FACE ‘DOUBLE WHAMMY’ AS UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TOO Money men warned today that more than 3.5 million students and graduates should brace yourselves for a big jump in student loan rates this year, after a surprise surge in inflation last month. One...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
CRUCIAL DEBATE CAN’T MOVE FORWARD UNTIL THEY AGREE WHAT UNI IS FOR A piece I wrote for the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ section has been greeted like a long-lost sibling. Not only has the article prompted 104 comments (last count as at 15.30 on...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
ONE IN THREE FEELS GOVERNMENT HASN’T DONE ENOUGH DURING RECESSION Fresh research shows that a third of students feel the government should have done more to help graduates find jobs during the recession – and a quarter don’t expect the situation to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
COULD JOBLESS GRADS BE FORCED TO SWEEP THE STREETS? David Cameron announced today that he’s getting tough on anybody who says they can’t find a job – and Graduate Fog has no reason to think he isn’t including jobless graduates in that. In what...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
GRADUATE GLOOM THREATENS PROPOSED UNI FEES HIKE Graduates have never been more disillusioned. Degrees have never cost more – but you say they’ve never been worth less. The graduate job market is still feeling the squeeze of recession – and unpaid...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
SIX IN TEN SAY UNI WASN’T WORTH IT, ONLINE SURVEY SHOWS Every now and then, I down several cups of strong black coffee and visit Prospects.ac.uk, the only graduate careers website that universities will recommend to you lot, despite the fact that –...
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...
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