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How to Make Your Skype Interview a Success
As a student, you should also learn effective professional and business communication. One important part of this is how to apply for jobs after graduation. You also use this knowledge and skills now as a student to get jobs to help you pay for your education and even living costs. Whether you are applying for […]
Competition Awards Unconditional Admission Offer
A contest could be the unique route of an aspiring student to admission into university. The winner of an advertising contest will be offered a completely unconditional slot by Falmouth University in its BA in creative advertising. The university aims to attract more talents to the course and make it more familiar to more people. […]
How the US Economy Took-In Out-of-College Workers
The declining college numbers is proving to be a global phenomenon. Despite ranking top in the world’s higher education, the US student population is following a downside dip. The percentage of high school graduates opting to enter college decreased. According to the latest government data, “65.9 per cent of 2013 high school graduates were enrolled […]
Nigel Carrington on Creativity and Economic Success
The creative and cultural industries make up the second largest, and fastest growing, sector of the UK economy, worth £8 million per hour and accounting for 5.6% of jobs. This is the heart of Nigel Carrington’s reply to the recent recommendation released by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The Telegraph correspondent brought out the […]
Getting hired: Same old graduate dilemma
Obtaining the right skill to boost the graduate’s employment prospects seemed not to be apt at university. Employers continue to lament over the emerging graduates’ gap in skill; yet, they fail to perform their part of the deal. Available job internships can’t provide a proper fix. Experts characterised them as being “too short and not […]
Answering to the Space Industry’s Demand
The UK space sector is in dire need of highly skilled scientists and engineers. The demand hasn’t seen any stopping in its growth. In fact, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills forecasted a very appealing growth trend, marked at present up to year 2030. Unfortunately, the UK space industry’s demand hasn’t really pooled attraction. […]
When Career Starts Before Graduation
A job, a decent job – these are catchy phrases nowadays. Students who haven’t graduated yet, but are approaching their final year are restlessly considering their employment options. Concerns continue to rock their consciousness: “Do I have the skills, the qualifications?” Fortunately, students are not alone in their query. Universities, particularly its career centres, have […]
Better Job Prospects for Year 2014 Graduates
Finally, the month of February is showing some love to the graduating class of 2014. This “love” comes in the form of prospects, job prospects to be exact. Word had spread that this year’s job prospects have soared a bit higher, taking aim for more graduates. The poll has been conducted by the Association of […]
Pay Expectations: When female grads ‘undervalue themselves’
Gender gap is persistent in ruining the aspirations of the education and employment sectors. This week’s featured victims are quoted as continually “undervaluing themselves” or are “less ambitious” in their career paths. The victims consist of female graduates – who just like their male counterparts, ply themselves off from universities and on to the waiting […]
Boosting Glasgow’ School-Leavers
A breath of fresh air came from Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow. The recent education news has almost often been pegged as ‘bad news.’ This time around, it’s going to be about improvements, as well as, incremental steps that which made Glasgow’s Higher Ed prospects brighter. To start it, consider the following statement made by the […]
Underemployment Trend: the Plight of UK’s Graduates
Figures that make up the latest labour market data represent two sides of a coin. The first sounded like a happy tale: there’s the increase of employment digits and the decrease in unemployment and youth unemployment rates. The other side is dismal, particularly for UK’s new graduates. Underemployment has increased, and is, in fact, affecting […]
Fortifying Skills Education to Close the Skills Gap
Another set of figure is setting the government’s wheels into motion. The mission behind the figure is fundamentally about seeking employer’s perspectives regarding today’s labour market – the youth’s skill, or lack thereof. A total of 1,000 employers, from small, to medium and large-scale businesses, had been invited to participate in the poll. Recruitment managers, […]
University Degree Even More Valuable Amid the Recession
The university degree is still one best way to get the best jobs and foundation on which to build a rewarding career; the graduate jobs market is recovering after the recession; and employment rates are better measured three and a half years after graduation compared to six months after the same reckoning point. These are […]
Basic Skills are Lacking in School Leavers
Estimates made by business leaders peg at a minimum of 40% the percentage of employers who need to give their own remedial training in English, maths and computing to new hires because teenagers have been struggling to function in their jobs. Passing examinations have been given too much emphasis by schools to the point that […]
Private School Enrollment Increases
Even with the worries of being less competitive in the labour market than their public university counterparts in the future, more and more students have taken the private school route in their pursuit of higher education, findings from a study conducted by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills indicate. The number of students who […]
Government to Give A-level Status to Tech-Levels
Starting 2014, technical courses for students ages 16 to 19 will be considered equal to A-levels if they get support from universities or businesses. The aim of the government in establishing the Tech-level qualification is to raise the status of vocational qualifications in England. The government aims to raise the level of vocational qualifications with […]
One in Every Three Jobs Taken by Graduates are Non-Professional; Statistics Confirm Degree Still One Best Way to Employment
A recent Statistical First Release from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that in 2011-12, more than one third of new graduates working in the UK took on non-professional jobs within six months after graduation. But for universtiy think tank million+ chairman Prof Michael Gunn, the numbers indicate that studying for a degree, both full-time […]
Internships and Work Experience as Students Give Graduates Competitive Edge
Internships and work experience as students are a plus factor for graduates when they apply for jobs. This is what results of a study conducted by High Fliers Research say. Based on this year’s survey, the chances of graduates who have internships and work experience when they are still studying being accepted in the first […]
Government Wants Unpaid Internships, Degree Classifications and University Ignored in Recruitment
The UK government has warned companies against putting too much emphasis on experience in unpaid internships, degree classification or university when screening job applicants. Employment aspirants who come from the more privileged background hold an unfair advantage over their less privileged counterparts when it comes to these two resume items, Universities Minister David Willetts asserts. […]
A-level Alternative to Boost Status of Vocational Courses Announced
A new structure that will raise the status of vocational courses in sixth forms and colleges throughout England and make them “on a par” with A-levels, according to ministers was launched Monday. The “technical baccalaureate” is taken from bundling together new and existing qualifications to create a measure schools can use to gauge performance. It […]
