Category Archives: graduate
The Possible Impossibility of Employability…
Let me guess. If you’re a uni student reading this, am I right in thinking you’d like to be employable once you graduate? It’s probably fair to say the vast majority of students want better job and career choices as … Continue reading
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Looking Beyond Employability
I found this tucked away near the end of an article in the Independent on Sunday: “Students should learn not how to win arguments but how to ask subversive questions of authority, assess evidence and find the truth. They should … Continue reading
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The answer is unanswerable
You need answers. The solution, you may think, is to look for answers. After all, you need them. Or do you? An ‘answer’ is like finding a solution, or developing a set of guaranteed instructions. Your search for the answer … Continue reading
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Qualifications: Shaping, Not Dictating
Will a master’s get you a job? The simple answer is: no, it won’t. But, as a piece in The Guardian says, “students are still heaping their dreams on them”. Before you get too engrossed in that dream, wake up … Continue reading
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Standing out and finding success
When the economy is in trouble and the job market isn’t brilliant, a standard choice for many is to stay in education (or return to it) and take a higher qualification. Getting another shiny new piece of paper that sets … Continue reading
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