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Top 5 winter jobs for students

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Guest Editor

The winter semester break is not only a great time for students on the lookout to make some extra money but also a chance to test out the world of work, pick up skills and learn about possible long-term careers.

Here is our pick for of the top fiv

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For students: How to prepare for the future

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Jenni Reid

In an ideal world, we could all retreat into our safe, comfortable student bubbles for three or four years before bursting back into real life at graduation, brimming with knowledge and inundated with employment prospects. But as we all know deep dow

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UK businesses value young people’s digital skills at £6.7billion

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Eno Enefiok

New research by O2 reveals that the unused digital skills sitting within the community of one million unemployed young people is estimated by UK businesses to be worth £6.7 billion.

These new findings indicate that businesses are in vital need of

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76% of students would take unpaid internships

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Guest Editor

Unpaid internships are the hot employment topic right now, with companies using students and graduates for unpaid work coming under increasing criticism.

But research conducted by theBigChoice.com shows that students see them as part of getting ca

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What the drop in university applications means for you

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Hannah Embleton-Smith

Statistics from UCAS show that university applications from UK students are down 8.9% this year.

England has experienced the largest increase in tuition fees and has consequently been most affected by the fall in applications, with 10% fewer compa

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Students: University is worth the money

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Guest Editor

Entrepreneur Simon Dolan stoked controversy last month by calling university “a waste of time” and “completely pointless”, boasting about how he turned an initial investment of £10 into a business making £6million profit a year. (more…)

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Are unpaid internships out of control?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Hanane Zahrouni

Many of today’s youth are suffering from unemployment and difficulty in securing their first job and their attempt to gaining access and placing their ‘foot in the door’ for that ‘oh so important’ desirable career.

The need to gain varie

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A necessary evil: student's views on unpaid internships

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Hannah Embleton-Smith

Unpaid internships are the hot employment issue at the moment, with much criticism being heaped on companies using young people as unpaid, full-time staff. But what do those being ‘exploited’ think about the situation? We asked current students a

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The shocking number of unpaid internships

Posted on September 5, 2011 by James Thornhill

The latest figures show that 43% of students who undertook an internship between 2006 and 2010 were not paid for their work.

Prospects asked 22,000 UK graduates over that period finding that 70% them had undertaken some form of work experience.

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Record number of clearing places filled

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Rhian Jones

The clearing system through the university application site UCAS has reached a record number of applicants.

Figures from UCAS show that the total amount of University applications are up 1% and the places filled through clearing are almost a third

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