Postgraduate courses ‘social mobility barrier’
The cost of postgraduate university courses could become an extra obstacle to social mobility, warns a study from the Sutton Trust charity. It says if students need postgraduate degrees for a tough jobs market, poor students should not be priced out. There are fears that increased undergraduate tuition fees could deter people from staying on [...]
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 [...]
The truth about unpaid internships
Unpaid internships are not the sort of experience we offer, here at Give A Grad A Go. However, many websites and organisations play on the crisis and recession in order to gain graduates as part of their workforce. When do you draw the line between ‘work experience’ and actually taking on someone’s workload? What are [...]
How to best advertise yourself on social media for your graduate job hunt
Many careers advisers and recruitment specialists will tell you that it is crucial to hold an online presence in order to boost your applications and covering letters. However, what they fail to specify is exactly how you should go about this; it’s all fine and well telling you to make your profile private and be [...]
GAGAGO Summer competition: win a CAMERA
Brilliant camera competition! Summer’s out and with so many celebrations to make the most of, including graduation, the Olympics and the sunshine (here’s hoping), what better way to capture the moment than with a brand new Canon camera, mahoosive memory card (8GB) and a case to keep it from harm’s way! Take your best shot [...]
What to do if you get a 2:2?
As your exams are wrapping up and you’re starting to ponder about results day, some of you may feel as far from a 2:1 as you feel from Freshers’ Week, all that time ago. You’re not alone – many finalists feel the same way, at the prospect of getting results dished out. Did you revise [...]
Give A Grad A Go’s Jubilee giveaway!
We’re pretty excited here at Give A Grad A Go about the upcoming Jubilee celebrations…As a result, we thought we’d share the good mood with all our Facebook fans by launching a brilliant competition! Can Jubilee-ve it? We’ve got £150’s worth of a food shop we’re planning on giving away to whomever comes up with [...]
Networking your way to graduate employment
We’ve heard the statistics. With an average of 83 applicants per graduate job you may be wondering what exactly it is you have to do to be one of the ‘lucky ones’. Are they better? Brighter? More experienced? Higher qualified? Chances are that whilst they may indeed be some of these things, one vital ingredient [...]
The full list of university fees
Here are the details of the fees that universities and colleges in England are planning to charge next year (2012/13). The table shows, from left to right, the name of the institution, the estimated average fee, and the estimated average fee after fee waivers. Anglia Ruskin University 8,175, 7,883 Aston University 8,722, 8,430 University [...]
Universities to learn if they can charge maximum fees
Universities will finally learn tomorrow whether they are allowed to charge students the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fee from September 2012. Most institutions are expected to be given the go-ahead to charge students the top fee on at least some courses when the Office for Fair Access (OFFA), the university admissions watchdog, announces its verdict. Universities [...]