by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2010 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
DEMAND FOR NEW ‘EMPLOYABILITY STATEMENTS’ TRIGGERS PANIC AT UNI CAREERS CENTRES The official body for university careers advisers has warned that proving each degree’s value to prospective students – a key recommendation of Lord Browne’s...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 11, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities
IT IS NOT STUDENTS’ JOB TO FIX H.E. CASH CRISIS, SAYS GRADUATE FOG When did it become automatically – and solely – the responsibility of students to balance the books of our nation’s universities? Graduate Fog doesn’t usually get involved...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 7, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
STRUGGLING TO FIND WORK? TRY HAVING A DISABILITY TOO It has been claimed that graduate jobseekers with ‘neuro-diverse’ disabilities are not receiving enough support from universities and the government to help them into work, as competition for graduate...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 23, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Uncategorized, Universities
GRIM PROSPECTS FOR GRADUATES ARE “FANTASTIC NEWS” FOR EMPLOYERS A senior jobs expert has clashed with appalled graduates by suggesting that news that a third of call centre workers in the UK now have a degree is “fantastic.” That this figure...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2010 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
NEW BOOK BLAMES YEARS OF SHORT-SIGHTED POLITICS FOR THE PLIGHT OF TODAY’S YOUNG WORKERS Two young journalists have launched a blistering attack on the politicians who have failed to protect the welfare of today’s young job-seekers. In their new book Jilted...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 3, 2010 | Universities, Unpaid internships
DURHAM, EXETER, ST ANDREWS, SUSSEX AND 15 OTHERS WANT YOU TO WORK FOR FREE You’ve just graduated. You’ve paid thousands of pounds in tuition fees – and now you can’t get a job anywhere. How do you fancy going to work for your university –...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 19, 2010 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities
CLASS OF 2010 IS ‘NUMEROUS AND DEPRESSINGLY SIMILAR’, HE CLAIMS A university professor has suggested that today’s graduates leave university without the ability to think. The claim appeared in an article by Tim Birkhead, professor of behavioural...
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