Top 10 Tips for PR Interns: How to Secure an Internship and Get Your Dream Job
As the owner of PR agency Marvellous Communications, I am inundated with CVs and applications for internships on a daily basis. Many of the candidates are right at the start of their career journey,...
View ArticleThere's Nothing Wrong With Discussing Immigration, But Let's Stick to the Facts
Wednesday's Sun front page truly encapsulates how low our debate on immigration has sunk with the headline: "Draw a red line on immigration or else". This is systematic of the tone that political...
View ArticleWellcome Trust Earns $100 Million From Twitter IPO
Britain's largest charity made more than $100 million when Twitter went public earlier this year, it has been revealed. The Wellcome Trust reportedly purchased a 1% stake in the social network from...
View ArticleThe Times They Are a Changing, So Make the Most of Them
Achieving a full-time, creative career can seem an unachievable task in 2013. Many young designers, artists and musicians are struggling to do what they love for a living without having to work in...
View ArticleAfter Harvard University Bomb Hoax, We Bring You The Best Get Out Of Class...
We've all had that pre-exam panic, but who's actually ever gone so far as sending an email pretending there's a bomb inside the exam building and getting everyone evacuated? Uh, well that's pretty much...
View ArticleMotorcycling Through Hue and Rural Vietnam
The rice is laid out on the road to dry in the sun. The grains crunch as the tyres speed over them. Harvest is in full swing, but it is monsoon season and when the sun shines, everyone gets busy. Qui,...
View ArticleEldo Kim Made Harvard Bomb Threat Because He Was Under Pressure: Lawyer
BOSTON (AP) -- A Harvard student accused of making a bomb threat to get out of a final exam was under a great deal of pressure and seems remorseful, his lawyer said Wednesday after his client was freed...
View ArticleUniversities Letting In Students With Lower Grades, Says UCAS
The UK's top universities are opening their doors to a rising number of students with lower grades, figures from UCAS suggest. At the top universities in England, the number of English 18-year-olds...
View ArticleNewcastle University Ends 'Cruel' Capture Of Wild Primates For Animal...
Newcastle University has announced it will be stopping its controversial capturing of wild primates for animal experiments, following public pressure. An investigation by anti-animal experiment...
View ArticleMemory: The Seamstress
Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf, although distinct thinkers of two Areas of Knowledge (the Human Sciences and Literature), both use memory in their work. To Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud,...
View Article2013: The Year of the Woman?
The nation is becoming nostalgic. As December draws to a close, we are beginning to reflect on the previous 12 months of songs, soaps and celebrations that have defined this year. The media has...
View ArticleWhy Traineeships Offer a Win-Win Situation: A Fresh Recruitment Strategy That...
Getting good apprentices was becoming a challenge for Nissan (NMUK). In a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we needed to make sure that we could access the best there was - young people who would...
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While the US Law School Bubble Bursts, the UK Law School Bubble Grows
At some stage in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. I call this the law school complex. The "default career choice." A pathological and congenital societal obsession with the...
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'Come Down Or Starve': University Of Ulster 'Denies Protesting Students Their...
Protesting students have accused their university of "stripping" them of basic human rights, cutting off electricity, toilet facilities and barring food supplies from being delivered. Students at the...
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THIS Is How To Answer A Test Question When You Haven't Studied
They say that honesty is the best policy, but one student decided to put this phrase to the test -- literally. Reddit user DRoss09 shared the following image of a test with the caption: "We asked our...
View ArticleWATCH: Amazing Reaction Of Rion Holcombe, Student With Down Syndrome, As He...
Even though we know what the letter says, we still can't help feeling on tenterhooks as 20-year-old Rion Holcombe visibly shakes as he waits to find out whether he got into college. Two weeks ago, the...
View ArticleHigh School Pulls Christmas Tree Prank On Teachers And Students (VIDEO)
A tip of the hat (and a pull of the cracker) to the media department at Kilgore High School in Texas for this slice of festive silliness. (Via Daily Picks And Flicks)
View ArticleHow I Know I Prefer Giving, to Receiving
"Do you prefer giving or receiving?" This is a question I was first asked in primary school, by a small boy with an awful haircut and a smirk on his face (That first pot of hair-gel made us all feel so...
View ArticleTop Five Online Resources for Improving Your Collaboration Skills
Collaboration between educators is harder than most people think. It's not that we don't want to share our tricks for success with our colleagues; the reason for this lack of socializing is because we...
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It's a Wonderful (Post-Uni) Life?
It's the end of the year, Class of 2013 - that is, now that the year ends at the close of December rather than some arbitrary day in July - and that can only mean Christmas. But you have an extra...
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