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Graduates are starting to realise the importance of improving their employability, according to research published by talent management firm, Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS). As a result of the increased quality in applications, there has been...
Careers expert Corinne Mills is here to ease your post-graduation employment worries. The job market is a little tricky for new graduates at the moment, but don't listen to the naysayers: it's not impossible for the class of 2013 to land a...
Students beginning university this September are more confidant about their graduate job prospects than last year's intake, according to a new survey. Three-quarters of students (74.1 per cent) starting degrees this September think finding...
The value of a degree has slumped by almost a third in the last 20 years because of a sharp rise in the number of people taking university courses, according to research. Figures show that the "wage premium" exercised by graduates – c...
A separate Scotland’s taxpayers would have to spend at least an extra £222 million extra per year giving students from the remainder of the UK ‘free’ university tuition, a leading economist has estimated. Professor D...
The number of Cambridge places claimed by students from private schools has dropped to a 30-year low following a university drive to create a more balanced undergraduate body, it was announced today. Figures show that just over a third of U...
Tuition fees in England could be limited to £6,000 per year and remain cost-neutral to universities and the Treasury, a study commissioned by the Million+ group of universities says. The research examines how a change in the level of tu...
All the recent hype about online higher education and 'Moocs' misses the point, says Kel Fidler – universities have been doing it for years. This not about replacing one model with the other. There will always be those who will want...
Instead of ignoring them, we should listen to poor inner city kids' ideas. Michael Simpson, a graduate fellow at social enterprise Year Here, does just that. The Independent reports. The Year Here philosophy is to understand a problem befor...
Mental health among students is not good, according to an NUS survey – little wonder, when their situation today is so dismal. The Guardian reports. Getting into university is an increasingly difficult affair, which explains why we si...