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 [...]
Refer a company to us and get an iPad 3
We like to thank our supporters here at GAGAGO HQ. So much so, we’re offering any person or business that refers a new client to us an iPad 3* Here at Give A Grad A Go, we have over 30,000 top graduates to choose from, covering a wide range of careers but we’re looking to [...]
Give A Grad A Go moves, makeovers and more
So, what have we been up to at Give A Grad A Go Towers? The past couple of months have whizzed by, with new recruits joining the team, a big office move in the works, a complete website redesign and general busy-ness all round! Now for the numbers: – 3672 hours spent building the new [...]
LSE votes against setting £9,000 tuition fees
First of the elite Russell Group of top universities to charge less than the maximum fee. The London School of Economics has become the first Russell Group university to declare that it will not charge the full £9,000 tuition fees next year; instead the annual tuition fee for UK and EU undergraduates will be £8,500. [...]
Graduate jobs market is ‘tough competition’
Students leaving university this year are going to face intense competition for jobs – with a survey indicating a 33% increase in applications. The High Fliers recruitment survey suggests students are applying more often and earlier for graduate jobs. The survey was based on the experiences of almost 18,000 final-year students at 30 leading UK [...]
Students march against tuition fee rise
Thousands of students and lecturers are demonstrating in central London against plans to almost treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England. The National Union of Students says about 30,000 people are taking part. It is threatening to try to unseat Liberal Democrat MPs who go back on pre-election pledges they made to oppose [...]
Work experience: Money-saving tips
If you are looking for work experience based in London – as many internships are – but the cost of living is putting you off, don’t give up. Huma Qureshi has some money-saving tips……… London: the big smoke, the city of dreams, the home of golden opportunities … oh, all right then, who are we [...]
Paying for Internships!!
This article was published on the BBC website on Wednesday 25th November. It’s a cause of great concern for all of us here. We’re totally dumbfounded that any company would expect an intern to pay to get their experience. Job-hunting university leavers are being warned against paying for services to help get them internships. A [...]