Top UK universities fall in rankings
Leading UK universities are slipping down an international league table. Ten UK universities are in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education World Rankings for 2012-13, compared with 12 last year and 14 in 2010-11. Excluding Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, Durham and University College London, several top universities slipped down. The table’s authors warned [...]
What to do with a Marketing Degree?
Over the years, marketing has evolved from being a module of business studies into the strong individual discipline it is today. Most people know it is about creating brands that people want, and understanding why they want them, and the advertising industry is a common destination for graduates. But before you dream of becoming the [...]
Three quarters of employers ‘require 2:1 degree’
Intense competition for graduate jobs means that more than three quarters of employers require at least a 2:1 degree grade, a survey suggests. The Association of Graduate Recruiters says there are more graduates chasing fewer jobs – with vacancies down by 7%. Applications have soared, with an average of 69 people chasing each graduate [...]
Having a degree in law will open all sorts of doors to you
A law degree is the most versatile of academic qualifications. There is really just one career for a graduate of dental surgery but for law graduates there are multifarious paths to success. Many law graduates proceed to become solicitors or barristers but, equally, many others use the qualification to become successful in commercial life, academic [...]
Budget 2010: Tax on bankers’ bonuses will fund 20,000 extra university places
An extra 20,000 university places will be available in England this September on science, maths, engineering and technology degree courses, the chancellor Alistair Darling announced in the budget today. Darling told the Commons that the cost of the “one-off” places would be £270m and would come, in part, from switching resources from existing budgets and higher [...]
What can you do with a degree in Mathematics?
According to the philosopher Bertrand Russell, mathematics “posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.” From the quantum theories of Stephen Hawking to the stories of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the study of quantity, structure, space and change can propel human thinking into new areas. Hawking cites [...]
What’s next after Higher Education?
What’s Next after higher Education? A recent survey found that graduates identified the following as the most important things affecting their employment prospects: Degree subject Vocational, sandwich and numerate degrees offered the greatest job prospects e.g. Medicine-related courses, Engineering and Technology, Business Studies, Computing and Maths. Fewer Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and [...]