Posts Tagged ‘ Arts Degrees ’

My degree? It’s just an overpriced swimming certificate…

December 11, 2009
By Greg Coughlin

Congratulations! It’s been a hell of a ride but you’ve done it! You’ve negotiated the potentially hazardous route from undergraduate to graduate, stopping off at the somewhat superfluous graduand on route. What next? Photos outside the arts block, hugs from loved ones and a quick exercise in hat catching before you are flung out...
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Grim times for graduates – but don’t lose faith

December 8, 2009
By Max Glover
Grim times for graduates – but don’t lose faith

The above quote, by Britain’s favourite straggly-haired Irishman articulates perfectly the fear that many undergraduates have with regards to their job prospects. Ignore engineers and accountancy students, who seem swamped with offers.  Ignore medics, who seem to bask in that ethereal glow of doing something that is a) difficult, b) helps mankind and c)...
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Why do exams suck? You have 90 minutes. Your time starts now!

May 21, 2009
By Duncan Robinson

Imagine the situation: you've just started a cushy graduate job and your new boss marches in - "Right. I want a report on the results from the last quarter. I want it in three hours, done from memory, and written by hand on that wobbly single person table over there." Not going...
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