University Student Life - Residence Halls. Effects Of Social Media On Job Prospects. An MP who turned down a student applying to his office for work experience over a foul-mouthed tweet has issued a warning to others applying for jobs. The unnamed pupil was rejected by his local MP Richard Graham after applying for work experience as part of a school project. Although Graham says he is "normally always happy" to give pupils the opportunity to work in his office, the Gloucestershire representative spotted a tweet from the teen, which read: "Don't this f***ing school realise I don't want to do work experience. " The MP wrote to the pupil, telling him: "I'm sorry but I am turning down your request because although your letter and CV were acceptable, your attitude to your school and life in general on Twitter is inappropriate," The Citizen reported.
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Graduate unemployment rates were almost on a par with those for people leaving school with just GCSEs, with 26% of 16-year-olds with these qualifications out of work. But the ONS figures show it was easier for older graduates to find work: at age 24 only 5% of degree holders were unemployed compared with 7% of those who finished their education after A-levels and 13% of those with only GCSEs. He said the graduate jobs market had "hardly returned to its state pre-recession", but most of those leaving university were likely to get jobs within six months.
Graduate unemployment levels on a par with school leavers | Money. School leavers face worst outlook for 20 years as one in five can't find work. Youth unemployment figures out today showed one million people aged 16-25 are out of workTUC warn the issue is at 'crisis point' By Martin Robinson Published: 07:21 GMT, 15 August 2012 | Updated: 16:05 GMT, 15 August 2012 Fears: TUC boss Brendan Barber says youth unemployment has reached 'crisis' levels in Britain A generation of Britons could be left on the scrapheap as one million young people are still out of work, official figures revealed today.
The situation is at 'crisis point' as one in five 16 to 25-year-olds cannot find a job and many have been looking for years, unions have said. At least half the one million unemployed youths have been searching for work for six months or more. And as youngsters collect their A-Levels this week they are being warned their future job prospects look bleak in the toughest jobs market for 20 years. 'Students looking to start their careers or continue in their education next month are facing the toughest climate for nearly 20 years. Number of UK university applicants drops 8.7%, Ucas figures show.
The number of UK university applicants has dropped by 8.7% compared with last year – but school leavers have not overwhelmingly been deterred by the tripling of tuition fees, official figures show. They also reveal a sharper drop among more affluent candidates than among those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The decision to let universities raise undergraduate fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year provoked widespread public anger and battered the credibility of the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg's party had gone into the general election promising to phase out fees. However, figures from the Universities and Colleges Admission Service (Ucas) published on Monday show that the number of 18-year-old UK applicants – the largest single group of candidates – has decreased by 3.6%, representing a drop of just under 8,500 people.
The number of 18-year-olds in the population has declined by 11,000 this year, to 772,000, according to the Office for National Statistics, a fall of 1.4%. Number of UK university applicants drops 8.7%, Ucas figures show. Record numbers of international students. 10 March 2011Last updated at 00:19 By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The number of international students around the world is continuing to rise sharply, with provisional figures from Unesco's Institute for Statistics revealing an annual increase of 12%.
The final figures for 2009, to be published in May, are expected to show the number of international students rising to 3.43 million from 2.96 million, according to the Unesco statistics. There are many different measures of overseas students - but this global figure from Unesco shows a huge spike in numbers this decade, rising by more than 75% since 2000. The United States is the biggest destination. According to the Institute of International Education, the latest figures show there are 691,000 students in the US, with an annual value to the economy estimated at around $20bn (£12.3bn). China has become the firecracker in this market. Chasing quality Overseas without the travel Continue reading the main story “Start Quote.
University applications rising, latest figures reveal - January - 2013. 30 January 2013 There has been an increase of almost 3% in UK university applications on last year, despite pre-Christmas figures showing a drop in demand - but numbers are still down on the previous year. 'On time' application figures taken up until the 15 January deadline show that 475,587 people have applied to start an undergraduate degree course this autumn, up 13,080 on the same time last year, according to figures from admissions body Ucas, but still down 6.1% on 2011 figures. The proportion of English 18-year-olds applying in 2013 has increased by a modest one percentage point, the figures reveal. Delayed university application decisions? Those starting university this autumn will be the second intake of students under the new tuition fee system, which enables universities to charge students a maximum of £9,000 a year in course fees. Almost 210,000 applications were submitted within the month leading up to the January deadline.
Uni student trends More on this... Number of UK university applicants drops 8.7%, Ucas figures show. New graduates face tougher struggle in their search for jobs | Society | The Observer. Around half of all this year's graduates will struggle to find full-time jobs for many months after leaving university if current employment trends continue, according to new research. Analysis conducted by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals that 51% of graduates were in full-time employment within three months from leaving university in 2010, the latest figures that are available, compared with 57% in 2003.
The analysis reveals there is huge variation in post-university employment levels across England and Wales, with some areas seeing around one in three (36%) graduates in full-time employment, while two in three (60%) are in work in other parts of the UK. "These figures are particularly worrying at a time when thousands of young people are gearing up to go off to university with the hope of improving their job prospects," said Peter Box, leader of Wakefield council and chairman of the association's economy and transport board. The Best And Worst Paid Graduate Jobs - House Price Crash forum. 'VeryMeanReversion', on 11 Jan 2012 - 3:47 PM, said: I've just been recruiting for a zero-experience engineering graduate for £25-30K.
No UK applicants, most were from India or China (one of which has now been hired).One of the applicants that we declined has offered to work for free until they can find a job. Good luck. Most of the grads hired within my sector of engineering of late have been European and African, and that's looking for explicitly 1st degree holders. Problem with grads in British engineering is that they can't bloody write and think outside the box, as they so often get tripped up by very simple competency tests, and have the attention span of a gnat.
Sadly, I think with £9000 p.a. tuition fees and engineering jobs in steady decline in the UK, a lot of smart young folk are not going to make it. [I think the writing thing is not so exclusive to engineers. Recent college graduates finding entry-level jobs hard to get and hard to keep. Gus Chan/The Plain DealerTheresa Ross moved back to her parents' house in Solon after completing a marketing internship in Columbus last fall. The Ohio State University graduate has spent the past eight months on an aggressive hunt for a full-time job. It wasn't until last fall that Theresa Ross started to get really worried about finding a job. Before that, the 24-year-old Solon native was on what she hoped to be a fast track to success. After graduating with a marketing degree from Ohio State University in 2007, she started a three-month internship with BMW in Columbus. Her supervisors were happy with her performance and extended the paid marketing internship to six months, then to a year.
Ross thought the experience might turn into full-time work. Now, like many recent college graduates, Ross is discovering how scarce entry-level jobs have become in this recession. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Ohio college graduates are pouring into the job market each year. SOURCE: Analysis of U.S. Graduatedkate | Life as a Graduate is Harder Than Being A Student Ever Was. Graduate jobs: Do graduates need a first-class degree to get a good job? Business | Graduates 'face tougher job market' This year's university graduates are facing a tougher job market, according to a new survey. Research by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) - which predominantly represents large blue chip firms and public sector employers - indicates there are 3.4% fewer graduate vacancies this year than last. However, the AGR survey said graduate recruitment was "nowhere near a crisis comparable to the situation in the early 90s".
But while competition for jobs has intensified, those who are finding work are earning more, with average starting salaries for graduates who are offered jobs breaking the £20,000 barrier this year. Intense competition Employers received an average of 42.1 applications for every graduate vacancy during the past year, up from 37.2 in 2001-02. Over the last 15 years, graduate starting salaries have more than doubled. And this year the average graduate starting salary has climbed to £20,300, an above inflation rise of 4.1% compared with 2002. Degree benefits Your comments: