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Career decisions, a request for help, and some fantastic super-curricular resources.
This week is aimed squarely at teachers, advisers and other supporters, with a quick analysis of two really interesting reports on career decision making.
Once again, I’ll be asking for your support in getting my guidance on Personal Statements and Admissions Tests out to your students.
And we’ll finish with some great super-curricular resources from Cambridge and Imperial.
Building your career part 2, the sports university, and the truth about passion.
This week, in part two of What you can do at university to start building your career, we look at the plethora of opportunities at university to explore and build your future career.
We have a look at the university that everyone knows is good for sport. Yep, you know the one!
And we finish with the truth about passion.
Building your career, studying in south Wales, and what true wealth means.
This week, part one of what you can do at university to start building your career. And it starts by understanding why you are there in the first place.
We have a look at one of Wales’s largest and most vocationally focussed universities.
And we finish with a thought about salaries, and true wealth.
Career happiness, bad treatment by universities, and a little gem from Hugh Laurie.
This week we look at parental pressure and what this has to do with your career happiness.
We also look at what to do if a university treats you badly during the admissions process.
And we hear a gem of an idea from actor Hugh Lawrie.
Are university rankings helpful? And two ideas to help you spend 80,000 hours on the right thing.
This week we look closely at university rankings and league tables. What are they? What do people in the sector think about them? And are they of any help to you?
We also look at an amazing website that can help you work out how to make a real difference in your career.
And the penny drops on an unbelievably simple, but massively important idea about choosing a career and a course.
The future of jobs and skills, your UCAS nomination, and the importance of learning how to learn.
This week our main article steps away directly from the university application process. For better or for worse, most people view university as a route to a better job. And jobs need skills. So what could be more important than understanding exactly what skills employers are looking for so you can make sure you develop them at university?
We then look at a small hack in the UCAS application form that might just help if things go wrong.
And finally a simple quote about what it really means to be educated.