Apprenticeships Offer New Routes Into Careers in HR
With record numbers of Apprenticeship starts and recent employer surveys reporting even higher confidence in apprentices it seems that young people now have more chances, and choices, as they decide...
View ArticleJob-Seeking Audience: A Truth
In the last months of university, after completing my dissertation and handing it in, I was tasked with having to write one last piece of work which was basically me saying what I hoped to do when I...
View ArticleForeign Students 'Over-Marked' At Substandard Colleges, Warns Ofqual
England's exams watchdog has expressed "serious concerns" about the standard of some qualifications being offered to foreign students. Two thirds of awarding organisations - including exam boards and...
View ArticleSimone de Beauvoir and Page 3: Why Banning the Degradation of Women Still...
Why do we continue to reduce women to their physical image? Simone de Beauvoir once said "...modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation." Objectification is...
View ArticlePenn State Lunar Lion Students Launch Project To Become First University Team...
A team of US university students are embarking on a brave campaign to become the fourth team in history to land a spaceship on the moon. The Pennsylvania State students are competing for the Google...
View ArticleTEFL Destinations and Surprising New Year Traditions
Dreary weather, lack of job opportunities and long office hours are driving thousands of Brits to move abroad every year. TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) is becoming a very popular way to...
View ArticleAnother Global Trend For 2014: Youth Unemployment Will Remain High
January is the month that media outlets around the world predict the next big thing and showcase the newest trends, from exercise techniques to technology. Sadly, one trend that will continue this year...
View Article2014: A Crucial Year for Higher Education
The historic announcement at the end of last year that the Government is going to fund the removal of limits to the number of students going to university raises some interesting questions for higher...
View ArticleThe Market Managed To Recover From The Recession. What's Taking Youth...
For the stock market, things are going great. If you're a recent college graduate: Not so much. The Dow Jones industrial average hit 52 all-time highs in 2013. This week, the Nasdaq closed at its...
View ArticleSamantha Cameron Goes Career Speed Dating With Essex Students
A school gave its female pupils a careers talk with a difference when it brought in two of the most prominent women in the country - the wives of Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg....
View ArticleTallulah Wilson Suicide Inquest: Tumblr Promises To Tackle Self-Harm Content...
Social networking site Tumblr said it was committed to continually improving its ability to act on self-harm content after a talented young teenager committed suicide. Gifted young dancer Tallulah...
View ArticleIan Goldin: It's 'Wrong' For The Media To Give Equal Attention To 'Climate...
Professor Ian Goldin of the Oxford Martin School joined HuffPost Live at Davos on Thursday to talk about the way the world is taking on climate change. "The scientists are pretty unanimous -- 99.9...
View ArticleSir Leszek Borysiewicz Warns Of The Dangers Of Cuts To Education
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, told HuffPost Live at Davos he's concerned about the long-term impact of cuts to education funding. "If we fail to invest in education...
View ArticlePorn Star Lisa Ann Takes Student Matt McGann To Las Vegas Awards Ceremony
Last weekend, with one crude sign, unsuspecting student Matt McGann managed to score a hot date with a porn star to a Las Vegas awards ceremony. It all started back in November when the student, from...
View ArticleThe Skills Gap Is an Obvious Issue, So What Is Being Done About It?
I think we are all in agreement that the UK is facing an extensive skills shortage across a number of industries. The impact of this challenge is quite diverse. It includes not having enough people...
View ArticleSexual Media and the Young
Sex is everywhere. Everyone knows that. There is sex on television, in adverts, magazines and the internet. Sex in music has never been so explicit. Women are seen as sex objects and men are...
View ArticleWhy I Had to Travel Halfway Across the Globe for University
I am Malaysian, but I'm also ethnically Chinese. I grew up in Malaysia and in my final year of secondary school, I recall being told that I was no longer the top student because "the rules had...
View ArticleBenefits Street: Easy Prey
Last week, fellow student Alex Yeates asked in his blog post about Benefits Street, "Why shouldn't we be angry?" After all, he argues, we should be allowed to disagree with the attitudes of the...
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