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Report Shows Mismatch Between Skills Training for Students and Available Jobs
New research by the Local Government Association reveals that colleges provide popular courses that teach skills for jobs that are nonexistent. The LGA says that as many as 17% of vacant jobs in...
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Latest Statistics Show Students’ Career Path After Graduation
Despite having tougher employment prospects, employment statistics for last year’s graduates still proved to be “much better than feared” as they do not show a significant difference from the year...
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Choosing a University Degree and How it Will Work for You
University fairs are once again being rolled out, with the first starting on 27 February in London and others following in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June. This means...
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Going to University is Still the Best Means to be Successful in Career
The changing times may have resulted in university degrees not being enough to secure a fulfilling career or a job itself for a graduate. However, the academe has coped with the shifting requirements...
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How International Alumni Can Help Recruit Foreign Students for UK Universities
International students are an important part of the population that makes up UK higher education institutions. They contribute to the diversity of student life on campus through the experiences,...
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Graduates Cautioned Against Staying in Low-Skilled Jobs
In a move brought about by the economic recession, more and more people, including graduates find it difficult to find jobs. Last month, the Office for National Statistics released data suggesting...
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Study Explores the Possibility of Limiting Tuition Fees to £6,000
This year marks the first that university tuition fees in England reached a maximum of £9,000, triple the previous cap. In the face of strong reactions to this move, various alternatives for funding...
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Government Wants Unpaid Internships, Degree Classifications and University...
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...
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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,...
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One in Every Three Jobs Taken by Graduates are Non-Professional; Statistics...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Offsetting the Decline in Foreign Student Entrants
The recent HEFCE findings saw a cause for universities to be crestfallen. After thirty years of steady climb, the UK institutions witnessed its first ever decline in foreign student entrants. The...
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Stay Employed with a Postgraduate Degree on Cyber Security
Have you come across an “ethical hacking course?” No, it isn’t the new oxymoron. It is Lancaster University’s cyber security programme offered alongside other institutions, like De Montfort...
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Private Employers Prefer Apprentices than Graduates
It appears that the value of the university degree has continued to decline. Private sector employers who would rather choose vocationally trained applicants to jobs have reached a number, at least,...
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Important Tips for First Time Graduate Job Hunters
You should not let the job choose you. You choose your job. That is what there is to it. Determine what you would like for a job, specially your first job as a new graduate and know the ways on how get...
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