Teaching Applications on the Up
The sales of apples are going to go through the roof! That’s right, apple farmers around the country are rubbing their hands together at the news that the recession has seen the number of graduates attempting to enter the teaching profession raise by 10%. And there’s no signs of things ...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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Video Search Results for science
2 min Career Advice: Science
by GRB
Why I chose Dstl
by DSTL
The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
by Masdar Institue of Science and Technology
Discover Biwater Services
by Biwater
How can you get a career ?
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How can you get a career ?
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CV Secrets
by Reading Careers
What companies are offering graduates
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How to prepare to meet an employer
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Reading Career Services
by Reading Careers
Reading Careers Fair
by Reading Careers
Why you must research for the Career Fair
by Surrey Uni Careers
The Autumn Reading Career Fair
by Reading Careers
How to talk to employers career fairs
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Why students and employers come to a careers fair
by Surrey Uni Careers
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Career Tentacle Search Results for science
8 specific skills listed to land a job
The UK is great at the eight “hard to find” skills. Good times. But we don’t use them. Bad times. The skills in question are speaking foreign languages; advanced engineering; IT skills; environmental and renewable energy skills; food science; life science; nanotechnology and er…financial services. The message here is, if ...
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Tags: Business skills, UK graduate skills, UK graduate skills abroad
The UK is great at the eight “hard to find” skills. Good times. But we don’t use them. Bad times. The skills in question are speaking foreign languages; advanced engineering; IT skills; environmental and renewable energy skills; food science; life science; nanotechnology and er…financial services. The message here is, if ...
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Tags: Business skills, UK graduate skills, UK graduate skills abroad
What’s your Plan B?
Back when I was but a young wiper snapper I had a Plan B if becoming an international businessman fell through, it was to become an international pop star instead. Thankfully my business career took off and my pop stardom backup plan remains a hobby, but it now seems more ...
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Tags: Jobs, plan b, Recession, Recruitment
Back when I was but a young wiper snapper I had a Plan B if becoming an international businessman fell through, it was to become an international pop star instead. Thankfully my business career took off and my pop stardom backup plan remains a hobby, but it now seems more ...
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Tags: Jobs, plan b, Recession, Recruitment
Fairtrade for Cadbury show “CSR” still key issue
You better believe that ethics are big business – as if proof were needed, step forward Cadbury to become the first mass-market chocolate brand to adopt the Fairtrade certification mark. The confectionery group will certify 300m of its Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars as well as its packaged cocoa, at a ...
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Tags: Fairtrade careers, Food and Drink, green and ethical trading
You better believe that ethics are big business – as if proof were needed, step forward Cadbury to become the first mass-market chocolate brand to adopt the Fairtrade certification mark. The confectionery group will certify 300m of its Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars as well as its packaged cocoa, at a ...
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Tags: Fairtrade careers, Food and Drink, green and ethical trading
UCL, recession and employability and good thinking
Give a cheer to University College London for their recession busting offer for this year’s graduates – a discount on all postgraduate courses of £1,000! UCL, and other universities such as the LSE and City University are taking employability and the challenges graduates face in finding a job vacancy or ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Give a cheer to University College London for their recession busting offer for this year’s graduates – a discount on all postgraduate courses of £1,000! UCL, and other universities such as the LSE and City University are taking employability and the challenges graduates face in finding a job vacancy or ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Nestle remain strong in their sector
As my son’s libelous illustration shows, students can be somewhat ambivalent about Nestle thanks to their marketing of baby formula to developing companies back in 1977. No getting away from the fact that they are the world's biggest food group, and it is precisely that global spread that means they ...
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Tags: company growth, Food and Drink, Graduate careers at Nestle
As my son’s libelous illustration shows, students can be somewhat ambivalent about Nestle thanks to their marketing of baby formula to developing companies back in 1977. No getting away from the fact that they are the world's biggest food group, and it is precisely that global spread that means they ...
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Tags: company growth, Food and Drink, Graduate careers at Nestle
Companies looking for female science & tech grads
Meet Claire Carr; engineer and senior project manager behind the lauded revamp of St Pancras station. That’s right, she’s a woman. And she’s only 31 years-old. She’s keen to boot out any notions of gender prejudice in the engineering sector where women are hugely under-represented. Across the science, engineering and ...
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Tags: career opportunities for female graduates, engineering, engineering graduate careers, women at work
Meet Claire Carr; engineer and senior project manager behind the lauded revamp of St Pancras station. That’s right, she’s a woman. And she’s only 31 years-old. She’s keen to boot out any notions of gender prejudice in the engineering sector where women are hugely under-represented. Across the science, engineering and ...
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Tags: career opportunities for female graduates, engineering, engineering graduate careers, women at work
Business says: “graduates not ready for world of work”
10 million graduates. 9 million jobs. A shortage of science and engineering graduates. And too many who, frankly, don’t come up to scratch. Business has spoken: if you want to look like you’ve prepared for the world of work, turn up on time and show basic people skills. Liverpool’s John ...
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Tags: Chasing graduate jobs, graduate career information, Preparing for the World of Work
10 million graduates. 9 million jobs. A shortage of science and engineering graduates. And too many who, frankly, don’t come up to scratch. Business has spoken: if you want to look like you’ve prepared for the world of work, turn up on time and show basic people skills. Liverpool’s John ...
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Tags: Chasing graduate jobs, graduate career information, Preparing for the World of Work
Grad employment holds firm - just get a good degree
If you want to know what your degree will be worth, it’s about £100k over your lifetime. That’s a lot of plays on a casino website. The good news is that the graduate jobs market is holding firm – the latest survey showing the lowest graduate unemployment rate for 5 ...
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Tags: Credit Crunch, Degree, Employers, Graduate jobs
If you want to know what your degree will be worth, it’s about £100k over your lifetime. That’s a lot of plays on a casino website. The good news is that the graduate jobs market is holding firm – the latest survey showing the lowest graduate unemployment rate for 5 ...
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Tags: Credit Crunch, Degree, Employers, Graduate jobs
Science students may get £1000 each
To hell with being a student at the minute thinks I: a new report shows that student accomodation prices have shot up by 20%, and a survey of 1,200 firms shows a big drop in the number expecting to hire new staff over the next few months - less than ...
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Tags: Degree course, engineering, job seeking, maths, rent, science, Using IT
To hell with being a student at the minute thinks I: a new report shows that student accomodation prices have shot up by 20%, and a survey of 1,200 firms shows a big drop in the number expecting to hire new staff over the next few months - less than ...
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Tags: Degree course, engineering, job seeking, maths, rent, science, Using IT
Idiot’s guide to World Trade talks
The aim was to make global trade easier. Much of the trouble has been around countries trying to protect traditional agriculture in their rural communities (by setting prices and subsidising farmers). Its maddening because agriculture only makes up less than 8% of world trade. Disputes about how much access America ...
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Tags: Agriculture, China, India, industry, Seeing the World, Trade, World Trade
The aim was to make global trade easier. Much of the trouble has been around countries trying to protect traditional agriculture in their rural communities (by setting prices and subsidising farmers). Its maddening because agriculture only makes up less than 8% of world trade. Disputes about how much access America ...
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Tags: Agriculture, China, India, industry, Seeing the World, Trade, World Trade
Dude, where’s my funding? Plymouth tries to save £10m
The University of Plymouth has announced it has to £10m over the next two years. Rising staff costs and other running costs are being blamed for the university's financial problems. Managers have not ruled out job losses or getting rid of entire courses to make the savings, but there will ...
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Tags: course choice, courses on offer, Plymouth, University funding
The University of Plymouth has announced it has to £10m over the next two years. Rising staff costs and other running costs are being blamed for the university's financial problems. Managers have not ruled out job losses or getting rid of entire courses to make the savings, but there will ...
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Tags: course choice, courses on offer, Plymouth, University funding
Enigneers look for talent…in kindergartens
If I had my time again it would be engineering for me: if you have that qualification you are in sky-high demand. Germany has over 90,000 engineering vacancies, and companies there are looking for a long-term solution. Hence, thousands of "discovery boxes" have been distributed to kindergartens throughout the country, ...
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Tags: career growth, career opportunities, Construction, engineering, Jobs
If I had my time again it would be engineering for me: if you have that qualification you are in sky-high demand. Germany has over 90,000 engineering vacancies, and companies there are looking for a long-term solution. Hence, thousands of "discovery boxes" have been distributed to kindergartens throughout the country, ...
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Tags: career growth, career opportunities, Construction, engineering, Jobs
BDO resign large account over “differences”
Fancy a ‘career with a conscience?’ Here’s a different kind of one in practice: the beancounters at BDO Stoy Hayward replaced the auditors PKF on reconciling the books for posh brickmaker Michelmersh. This is a sizeable client – no small beer in terms of money for a job well done. ...
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Audit, Construction, Integrity, values
Fancy a ‘career with a conscience?’ Here’s a different kind of one in practice: the beancounters at BDO Stoy Hayward replaced the auditors PKF on reconciling the books for posh brickmaker Michelmersh. This is a sizeable client – no small beer in terms of money for a job well done. ...
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Tags: accounting, Audit, Construction, Integrity, values
Top uni has no faith in “spoonfed” candidates
The world’s fifth ranked university, Imperial College London, is adding an extra year to degree courses so “spoonfed” students can catch up on basic skills they failed to learn at A-level. The institution said it struggles to pick out the best candidates because so many achieve top grades - even ...
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Tags: Diploma, engineering, job opportunities, pharmaceutical, science, skills shortage, University
The world’s fifth ranked university, Imperial College London, is adding an extra year to degree courses so “spoonfed” students can catch up on basic skills they failed to learn at A-level. The institution said it struggles to pick out the best candidates because so many achieve top grades - even ...
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Tags: Diploma, engineering, job opportunities, pharmaceutical, science, skills shortage, University
iTunes used to spread the (lecture) love
Dr Dre? BA Robertson? Dr Feelgood? Oh, please yourself! Educational content is already available in the United States through the non-charging "iTunes U" section of the Apple downloading service and now University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are also putting lectures onto iTunes. The initial offerings ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Tags: Apple, Cool Brand, education, Higher Education, iTunes, Music industry, University
Dr Dre? BA Robertson? Dr Feelgood? Oh, please yourself! Educational content is already available in the United States through the non-charging "iTunes U" section of the Apple downloading service and now University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are also putting lectures onto iTunes. The initial offerings ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Tags: Apple, Cool Brand, education, Higher Education, iTunes, Music industry, University
Eco travel agent gives tips on going green…!
If you fancy a taste of the highlife how about a career with fair trade travel agent Bespoke Experience? Their boss Amy Carter-James had her conscience given a grilling in this month’s BA magazine when asked about juggling travel with eco-credentials. Asked how she minimises her impact when travelling she bafflingly ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Tags: conversation point, Environment, Interview, leisure, Seeing the World, tourism
If you fancy a taste of the highlife how about a career with fair trade travel agent Bespoke Experience? Their boss Amy Carter-James had her conscience given a grilling in this month’s BA magazine when asked about juggling travel with eco-credentials. Asked how she minimises her impact when travelling she bafflingly ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Tags: conversation point, Environment, Interview, leisure, Seeing the World, tourism
White? Middle-class? Female? You’re hired.
White, middle-class women have the best chance of getting top degrees at Universities. Women out perform men in almost every subject with 59% of firsts and 2:1s going to women last year. The gap is widest in courses such as biological science and education (and map-reading?). The research by the ...
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Tags: graduate prospects, Jobs for women, lifestyle, University, World of work
White, middle-class women have the best chance of getting top degrees at Universities. Women out perform men in almost every subject with 59% of firsts and 2:1s going to women last year. The gap is widest in courses such as biological science and education (and map-reading?). The research by the ...
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Tags: graduate prospects, Jobs for women, lifestyle, University, World of work
Pfizer tries to force medical journal to reveal sources
Medical journals offer anonymous (and therefore honest) reviews of new drugs that scientists and pharmacists use to evalute the merits of pre-publication research. But now, the makers of Viagra, Pfizer is trying to force the New England Journal of Medicine to release the names and comments of its anonymous peer ...
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Tags: industry, law, media, pharmaceutical
Medical journals offer anonymous (and therefore honest) reviews of new drugs that scientists and pharmacists use to evalute the merits of pre-publication research. But now, the makers of Viagra, Pfizer is trying to force the New England Journal of Medicine to release the names and comments of its anonymous peer ...
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Tags: industry, law, media, pharmaceutical
Virgin ferry VIPs in hydrogen-powered cars
Difficult to wear your green trousers when you also don a pilot's hat. That's what Branson is wrestling with. First last month's coconut-oil jet was seen as a giant publicity stunt, and now Virgin is making a noise about hydrogen fuel cell-driven limos picking up VIPs from business class flights. ...
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Tags: airline
Difficult to wear your green trousers when you also don a pilot's hat. That's what Branson is wrestling with. First last month's coconut-oil jet was seen as a giant publicity stunt, and now Virgin is making a noise about hydrogen fuel cell-driven limos picking up VIPs from business class flights. ...
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Tags: airline
Polaroid stops making iconic instant film.
With the digital age rendering it's iconic product obsolete but for nostalgia-iasts, Polaroid is to close factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and The Netherlands and stop making film. The firm stopped making the instant cameras themselves about a year ago. The firm was founded in 1937, making polarised lenses for the ...
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Tags: IT, media, Online
With the digital age rendering it's iconic product obsolete but for nostalgia-iasts, Polaroid is to close factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and The Netherlands and stop making film. The firm stopped making the instant cameras themselves about a year ago. The firm was founded in 1937, making polarised lenses for the ...
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Tags: IT, media, Online
Coke save planet, if not your teeth.
Everyone loves Coke out of a glass bottle, but that's about to change. Coca-cola have reduced the weight of 1916's iconic "hourglass" bottles (pictured) to make them more eco-friendly. The redesign has cut the bottles' weight down from 263g to 210g each, cutting raw glass usage by an estimated 3,500 ...
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Tags: Food and beverage
Everyone loves Coke out of a glass bottle, but that's about to change. Coca-cola have reduced the weight of 1916's iconic "hourglass" bottles (pictured) to make them more eco-friendly. The redesign has cut the bottles' weight down from 263g to 210g each, cutting raw glass usage by an estimated 3,500 ...
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Tags: Food and beverage
Computer is serious alternative to high street
Online spending in the UK is expected to reach £40 billion this year - that's a lot of fake Chinese Viagra. The predictions in a Uswitch poll guess that by 2020 online will account for 40% of our total retail spending. Cheaper and faster broadband are to thanks as well ...
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Tags: IT, Online, Retail, Survey
Online spending in the UK is expected to reach £40 billion this year - that's a lot of fake Chinese Viagra. The predictions in a Uswitch poll guess that by 2020 online will account for 40% of our total retail spending. Cheaper and faster broadband are to thanks as well ...
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Tags: IT, Online, Retail, Survey
No golden handshake for Northern Rock boss
After 3 years in his £315,000 job, Northern Rocky chairman and writer of science books Matt Ridley (get a haircut) has resigned but will not receive a pay-off. The Untalented Mr Ridley had offered to resign in September but was asked to remain in his post to testify before a ...
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
After 3 years in his £315,000 job, Northern Rocky chairman and writer of science books Matt Ridley (get a haircut) has resigned but will not receive a pay-off. The Untalented Mr Ridley had offered to resign in September but was asked to remain in his post to testify before a ...
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
The founding father of cheap flights dies
Tony Ryan, the founder of Europe's largest low-cost airline, died yesterday at his home in Co Kildare aged 71 (that's no age). He established Ryanair 23 years ago with a 15-seat aircraft flying from south-east Ireland to Gatwick, now it carries 52 million passengers a year. Ryan was a generous ...
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Tony Ryan, the founder of Europe's largest low-cost airline, died yesterday at his home in Co Kildare aged 71 (that's no age). He established Ryanair 23 years ago with a 15-seat aircraft flying from south-east Ireland to Gatwick, now it carries 52 million passengers a year. Ryan was a generous ...
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
