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Student Cash Point
With the recent arrival of A-level results and the upcoming start of the 2010/11academic year, student finance is at the forefront of discussions and acts as a timely reminder of the journey that lies ahead for those about to start, or those who are already embarking, on their University careers.
London Boroughs
With a uniquely diverse population and one of the highest concentrations of urban disadvantaged and unemployed people in the UK, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets faces some big challenges in helping its population realise its potential.
Transferring Courses
Perhaps you’re living away from home for the first time. Perhaps you’re mortified by the antics of your extrovert peers and feel pressured to have ‘fun’ when in fact you don’t know a soul and would prefer to take things more slowly. Perhaps you already sense that your choice of course – or college is not what you expected and you want out – fast.
Nursing
With the competition tougher than ever to secure a place to train to be a doctor, a private college in London is launching a pre-medical course next month [September] to help applicants who already have A-levels prepare for entry into medical school.
Postgraduate Studies
If you want to earn more money then your postgraduate degree should be related to the employment you are seeking: more obviously professional or business training related Masters then your salary will benefit.
Sandwich Year
A placement year should bear no resemblance to the kind of work experience you might have done at school. You have the opportunity to complete a professional work placement as part of your degree.
Clearing
EDUCATION 2010: The indispensable guide to life after college and A-levels
The waiting is over and the results are in. So what now? In the first of four weekly guides for school leavers – and learners of all ages - we help you plot your next move: from what to do if you haven’t got the grades you needed to alternatives to university. Whatever your situation or result, Education 2010 has all the help and advice you need.
Re-sitting
Although receiving poor grades may make you feel desperate, you still have choices. Re-sitting your exams could be a way to get your academic career back on track, and maybe even turn an unfortunate situation to your advantage.
Performing Arts
“New writers learn fastest by working to the standards at the highest levels of the screen industry itself, nothing less, and being guided by the best writers the industry’s produced,” he says. “That’s how our students will succeed.”
Trade Courses and Apprenticeships
As your skills develop, your pay will increase accordingly. You may also get additional money for essential books, clothing or equipment, for example. There are targets and checks to make sure that your employer is supporting you and you are making progress.
Graduate Fashion Week
“The GFW Education Day is about preparing students with the facts and the knowledge they will need to make informed choices about their careers.”
Art Conservation
A small specialist college set in the heart of the 6,400-acre West Dean Estate near Chichester in West Sussex is becoming a popular choice for postgraduates looking to pursue a career in conservation.
Adult Learner’s Week
"Given that women of my age should now be expecting to work until they are 70, I can expect a long career ahead of me when I eventually do qualify and my children are older. I look forward to a future as a senior accountant. "
Short and Part Time Courses March 2010
Unlike a typical foundation diploma, the class intake does not only comprise of 18 and 19 year-olds: some students are professionals or parents looking to return to education and make a career change
Financial Services
Londoners considering a New Year career move into the financial services industry can be cautiously optimistic.
London College of Accountancy
LCA is a professional training college offering a full range of accountancy and management courses throughout the year run by an experienced team of lecturers. Our courses include ACCA, ICAEW, CIMA, CAT, MBA, undergraduate degrees and many others.Short & Part Time Courses Feb 2010
Whether you’re looking for fresh air, freedom or just an excuse to get out of London, Plumpton College in Sussex has developed a series of weekend short courses which could bring you closer to nature - or even kick start a new career.
AAT - Association of Accounting Technicians
The AAT is the world’s leading professional membership body for accounting technicians, with over 100,000 members worldwide. The AAT’s qualifications will help you develop relevant, practical accounting and finance skills for lifeNew Year; New Direction
Amongst the 370 or so courses that Thames Valley University (TVU) is offering with a February start date this year is a Foundation Degree (FdA) in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship: Business Start-Up.
Postgraduate Courses 2010
More and more Londoners are choosing to recession proof their futures by taking additional qualifications. Whether it’s to help you change career direction or simply ensure you stay on top of your game.
Work Based Learning
A modern way of creating university-level learning in the workplace is helping professionals keen to increase their skills base and enhance their employability.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
It’s not just elite athletes for whom the London Olympics is the ultimate goal – a huge motivator behind their current training and commitments. Travel and tourism chiefs are preparing themselves for a bumper summer in 2012 – and are looking to equip their workforces present and future for this gold medal challenge.
RETRAINING
For 22 year-old Stacey Collins, giving birth to her daughter Kayleigh two-and-a-half years ago changed her life in more ways than one. Having worked as a pub manager in Pickering in North Yorkshire and Heathrow in West London, she was inspired to retrain as a midwife after receiving dubious standards of care during her own pregnancy.
NEW YEAR TRAINING
The offer, being marketed as the ‘Yes You Can’ initiative, is geared towards helping the ½ million graduates from 2008 and 2009 in the UK; students will need to enroll before the end of the year for the courses starting in January.
Trade Courses and Apprenticeships
Forget letters after their name, British parents are rooting for vocational qualifications to recession-proof their children’s employment chances.
Research by independent education foundation, Edge, finds that while the economy has taken a downturn, the value of vocational qualifications’ ‘career currency’ has increased – more than four fifths of parents of 11-19 year-olds now believe it’s important for their child to have a vocational qualification.
Of these, 40% of parents said it will make their child more employable, get a job quicker, earn a better pay packet (26%) and generally be more recession proof (20%) - plus one in four thinks it will put their offspring in a better position to be their own boss. Topping the entrepreneurial career charts for the country’s parents in order of ranking is IT, followed by marketing in second place, and catering/hospitality, finance and insurance in joint third.
Spring/Summer Learning
Running this year from 26 June to 6 August 2009, Middlesex University Summer School offers courses ranging from one day to five weeks in duration, with choices from introductory to more advanced levels. Many courses can be studied for academic credit, while others are designed for those interested in developing creative, personal or professional interests. A whole variety of subjects from arts and languages to history and psychology are on the syllabus and last summer over 1000 students from a variety of backgrounds registered across nearly 90 courses.
Courses in the downturn
More and more Londoners are choosing to recession proof their futures by taking additional qualifications. Whether it’s to help you change career direction or simply ensure you stay on top of your game, courses with New Year start dates are proving popular with switched-on students who don’t want to hang around to see what the job market looks like in September.
New Year Training
While the school academic year may begin in September, increasing numbers of universities are providing students with the opportunity to fit their study around their careers and lifestyles.
Henley Business School MBA Competition – The Winning Essay
"CEOs often comment that their organisations flourish as a result of the people that work for them. What are the factors that create a winning team in these successful organisations?" Her outstanding submission, together with her performance at a recent selection day at Henley , helped her secure the bursary, worth over £30,000.
Foundation Degrees
Birkbeck’s Foundation Degree in Media and Business Applications, for example, is a flexible professional development programme, which offers advanced modules in media theory, multimedia and management.
Skills London - Be Enterprising at Skills Event
Are you prepared to do battle with dragons? Do you have an idea that will tame the beasts and a plan to make it happen? At Skills London 2008, the UK’s biggest careers event happening at ExCeL London on 20-22 November, students can compete in Dragons’ Den sessions to turn a great idea into a great product.
Trade Courses & Apprentices
The CoVE Programme is one component of the Learning and Skills Council’s strategy to meet the needs of employers locally, regionally, nationally and within each sector.
Fashion & Retail Training
Whether you plan to retail your own product, or source from existing brands or labels, LCF’s ‘Starting a fashion retail business’ course will help you to discover the advantages and disadvantages of running your own retail outlet.
Brunel MBA course
“I chose Brunel because it offered me a degree of flexibility: a virtual learning environment through which I could participate in discussion with fellow students remotely; the ability to booking sessions with tutors online – I could even, with prior permission, make iPod recordings of lectures I’d missed,” she says.
Win an MBA scholarship worth more than £30,000
The Evening Standard and Henley Management College are offering readers the chance to win a scholarship to study a Full Time MBA at Henley this year.
An Economic Opportunity
With the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the takeover of Merrill Lynch and other turbulence in the financial markets prompting a series of job losses across the City, some are seeing redundancy as an opportunity to invest in their futures.
Doubts About Starting University?
While it’s perfectly natural to have some doubts about a move as huge as starting university – and you will overcome them - for a handful of students, it only gets more difficult.
A New Challenge In Life
With over 3,300 courses on offer, the City Lit is London’s largest adult education college, attracting an impressive 24,000 students every year to its evening, daytime and weekend courses.
The Medical Sector & Vocational Courses
From physiotherapy to counselling; from a BSc ‘top-up’ degree in health promotion to a PhD in child psychoanalytic psychotherapy, you have the choice pursue any numbers of specialisms that could equip you to pursue a career both in the NHS or in the burgeoning private medical sector or pharmaceutical industry.
Employers turning to new retention packages
An increasing trend amongst switched-on employers is to offer funding for a part-time or full-time postgraduate programmes as part of their recruitment and retention packages.
Mature Student Opportunities
The main aim of Access programmes is to prepare adult learners from non-traditional backgrounds and underrepresented groups for admission to undergraduate education.
Clearing
Are you still waiting to find the course that will shape your future after getting your A-level grades last week? If you are then you need to keep calm.
Universities and colleges are embracing new technologies
Times have changed since higher education meant pouring other ancient tomes in silent libraries. Universities and colleges are embracing new technologies to enhance the way they deliver their courses – and extend their appeal to new audiences looking to study more flexibly.
Clearing 2008 - Life after college and A-levels.
Not everyone will find the key to a place at their dream university in their results envelope today. If you’ve got lower grades than expected and you’re still keen on higher education you’ll need to consider your options.
Henley Management College
Apply by 30th September to win a full Scholarship on the full-time MBA programme at Henley Management College, starting January 2009.
MBA Courses
The MBA class of 2006-7 at Oxford’s Business School (SBS), for example, saw their average pre- and post-MBA salary differential increase to 58 per cent, compared to 52 per cent in the previous year.
Shop for new skills
Top retailer to sell their opportunities at the UK's biggest careers event
What global students really, really want...
A new research report has highlighted some good news - and bad news - for universities in the UK who want to attract the best and brightest international students.
The UK’s biggest careers event - Bursting with careers
Skills London 2008
20, 21, 22 November 2008
This November the UK’s biggest careers fair, Skills London 2008, will be at ExCeL London. Aimed at the capital’s 14-19 year olds this event will showcase the best in skills, careers, training and life opportunities for visitors whatever their aims or ambitions.
Broadening technological horizons
Despite celebrating 150 years of offering degrees through distance learning this year, the University of London is looking to broaden its appeal and access through embracing new technologies.
Master the credit crunch with a degree
More and more students are considering taking an MBA to ride out any slowdown or recession resulting from the US credit crunch, according to recent analysis of attendance at MBA recruitment fairs.
SHORT & PART TIME COURSES
With her work as a project administrator for the Thames Gateway Life Long Learning Network and two sons aged 24 and 17, Judy Morgan didn’t think academic study was an option open to her. However, it was her elder son who encouraged and eventually persuaded her to go to university.
MBA Courses
A new education collaboration designed to promote and support creativity in business is to become a key component of the MBA at Imperial College’s Tanaka Business School.
Trade Courses
STRAP
Studying with a trade in mind is a short cut to earning a living – and there are some healthy salaries out there for qualified craftspeople. VICKI-MARIE COSSAR checks out a selection of those on offer.
TRADE COURSES
STRAP
Studying with a trade in mind is a short cut to earning a living – and there are some healthy salaries out there for qualified craftspeople. VICKI-MARIE COSSAR checks out a selection of those on offer.
STRAP By BEL JACOBS
To get ahead in management these days, you need an MBA. ‘Everyone’s got a degree,’ points out Stephen Fettes, Director of Development at the Greenwich School of Management. ‘Now, employers are looking for people who, while they’re specialists in their own areas, also have a strategic outlook. Employers are looking for people with MBAs.’
Be first on the fast track
While most of us limit our New Year’s resolutions to embracing detoxing and regular exercise, growing numbers of Londoners are signing up for degree courses in their drive for self-improvement.
Join the Professionals…
Make 2008 the year you take your career to the next level by signing up to study for a professional qualification.
New Year Training
YMCAfit is one of the best known names in exercise education, renowned as providers of ‘Gold Standard’ training for the fitness industry.
Convenient Courses
Whether you only want to take six months out after A-levels before returning to academia or are keen to act on your New Year resolution to skill up before your enthusiasm wanes, modular courses offer you the flexibility to start your degree in January, February or even April.
IT Courses
Director Jerry O’Sullivan is a founding Director of training provider Joskos, which has helped 200 businesses since they signed up to the scheme and will have helped a further 100 by the end of the year.
Strong support for global students in London
London has more international students than any other city in the world. Over 80,000 international students, add to the diversity of culture in our vibrant capital.
Making Your Work Life Better - Men'sHealth Magazine
Daily grind starting to grind you down? Here is one report by Men'sHealth Magazine you really should read: the complete guide to making your work life so much better
Henley Management College – Evening Standard Bursary Winner
Henley Management College is delighted to announce the winner of the ‘Henley/Evening Standard 2007 Bursary Competition’ is Lok Yap.
MBA & POSTGRADUATE COURSES
“I firmly believe that my outlook and my mentioning the MBA course gave significant impetus to my interview, especially as the Council was keen to develop the position and maintain its quality reputation,”
Human capital investment is key to the UK PLC’s position as a global player
Speaking at the ‘Mind the Skills Gap’ conference to senior business leaders across UK PLC, Sir Alan urged for a skills review to take place in order to maintain the UK’s position as a global player.
Adult Learning
Providing adult learning opportunities for over 24,000 students every year from the biggest choice of part-time courses in London, City Lit has long had a reputation from being a bit of a drama queen.
Advice Websites
When Simon Dance found himself £8,000 in debt, the Northumbria University student set up his own website, www.clearstudentdebt.co.uk, to help people in the same predicament.
Oddball ways of making cash
With more than a quarter of students expected to rely on part-time work to pay their way, knowing how to pull the perfect pint will be invaluable to many. But what if propping up the wrong side of a bar doesn’t appeal to you?
Earn as you learn
It was the Russian-American author Bel Kaufman who said: ‘Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.’
Comparing student deals
No matter which bank you turn to for a student account, you'll find offers of goodies – such as cinema tickets, cheap insurance, discounts and cards – to entice you. You may feel like you can't go wrong, but exceed your overdraft limit and you will find a nasty sting in the tail.
Case study: Michael Lee
Catford-based Michael Lee, 21, has not only just completed a politics degree at Durham University, he has also been earning money from his fledgling internet business where bands can promote their music and gigs.
International Baccalaureate
At a time when accusations of grade inflation are rife and universities are finding it harder to distinguish between top A-level students, interest in the International Baccalaureate (IB) is growing.
Student finance round-up
Time was when the only thing university students stressed about was cramming for finals or managing to pull that gorgeous-looking hockey captain in freshers’ week. Now, with fees, loans, bursaries and debt to contend with, the outlook is decidedly less carefree for Britain’s future academic hopes.
OPEN DAYS FOR YOUR DIARY
The London Military Festival on 21-22 September 2007 (20-21 September 9.30 am - 3.30pm for schools) at Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Twickenham, TW2 7DUoffers the opportunity for you to learn more about the Regular Army and the Territorial Army.
Saving money
Despite being cheaper than convenience food, cooking your own meals is generally healthier too. What’s more, if you’re trying to impress, cooking someone dinner will get you a lot further than a takeaway.
Graduates of The Year
Lots of students will tell that their gap year changed this life. Alexander McLean’s changed not only his own life but other people’s.
Gap Year Funding
Beneficiaries will be expected to prove the project's worth, show evidence of their work, keep the organisation abreast of what they are doing and give talks when they return to the UK.
Volunteering – why do it?
Voluntary work may lack appeal to many looking for a gap-year option, but the fact is it combines the benefits of gaining experience relevant to the job market and the joys of discovering the world.
Case study – Physiotherapist - Theresa Mohan
Theresa Mohan, 24, wanted to experience life as a physiotherapist abroad and, last year, went on a four-month trip to work in Nepal.
Transferring University/Course
While it’s perfectly natural to have some doubts about a move as huge as starting university – and you will overcome them - for a handful of students, it only gets more difficult.
PART-TIME COURSES
Finance and family commitments often mean that not all potential students can sign up to a full-time course and this is why both universities and higher education courses are offering many more flexible approaches to learning.
Trade Courses
From The Olympics and the Lea Valley Regeneration in the East to Heathrow’s Terminal Five in the West, a booming construction industry means now is a great time to be a skilled tradesman in London.
Gap Years
The concept of the gap year has changed beyond recognition. Once it was the preserve of rich, public school leavers, taking a wedge of cash from their parents and heading off to ‘find themselves’ in places they might never be seen again.
The Changing Gap Year
The concept of the gap year has changed beyond recognition. Once it was the preserve of rich, public school leavers, taking a wedge of cash from their parents and heading off to ‘find themselves’ in places they might never be seen again.
STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
While many students now leave finding rooms until the last minute to save money, others have no option, having found their university places through clearing at the last minute. Add to these flat hunters the students who are simply disorganised and it all amounts to a deluge of undergraduates currently searching for accommodation in London.
STUDENT FINANCE
After the excitement of last month’s A-Level results, the reality for many students is beginning to set in. Balancing your time and money at university will be a challenge and, according to recent research, for two-thirds of Freshers, their biggest concern is money being tight.
Student Lifestyle
As any undergraduate will tell you, it’s where you study, not what you study that defines your university experience. Sarah Richardson compares two cities – one in the north, one in the south – which are renowned for appealing to student tastes
Earn While You Learn
“I looked around a few units before I signed up including the army legal corps and the intelligence corps,” she recalls. “I felt the Military Police had a good vibe and felt it was more appropriate to sign up as an ordinary soldier and work my way up on merit rather than apply to be an officer: I’m learning about the Army from the bottom up.”
Mature Students: Gerry McMillan Case Study
Gerry McMillan, 39, left school with two O-levels to become an apprentice shipwright in Glasgow. After building up his qualifications through night classes, he moved to London and became a mature student at University Of East London. Now married with a 16-month-old daughter, he is a senior technical support consultant in the City.Mature students - Types of learning
The old adage really is true: you’re never too old to learn. In fact, mature students often excel at their subject because they’re more focused and more determined.In today’s society, many people have two or more ‘careers’ during their lifetime and ‘portfolio’ careers, where a person has two or more part-time or freelance jobs are on the increase. There really is a world of choice out there for you, so if you’re fed up with your current job, feel it’s time to do what you always really ‘wanted’ to or simply want to see what else is out there – get educated
Circus Space
Thinking of a career in the performing arts? You've probably considered dance or drama but have you considered a future as a circus artiste?Mature Students - Deanna Nielson Case Study
Deanna Nielson, 38, is completing a masters degree at London Metropolitan University. She trained as a social worker in her native Sydney, Australia, and works as a full-time manager for NCH, the charity formerly known as National Children’s Home.DIARY OF A FULL TIME STUDENT
George Fafalios, 20, is about to start his second year student of a BA in Film and video at the London College of Communication (LCC) in Elephant and Castle. He lives in Islington with two flatmates and a dog.Mature Students
The main aim of Access programmes is to prepare adult learners from non-traditional backgrounds and underrepresented groups for admission to undergraduate education.Mature Students - Brian May Case Study
For proof that being a mature student is the new rock’n’roll, look no further than Queen guitarist Brian May. The musician, now aged 60, handed in his astronomy Phd thesis earlier this month, a mere 36 years after he abandoned it to focus on rising stardom of a very different kind with Freddie Mercury’s band Queen.EVENING COURSES/VOCATIONAL Studies
Interested in pursuing a career in circus skills? Here are some useful websites:Joining Forces
IF you can’t stand the idea of a 9 to 5 office job and want a vocation with excitement, pressure and variety, then a job in the army or emergency services may be for you. But what qualifications will you need and what kind of career will it give you? Caroline Graham rounds up the essential details:Postgraduate Degrees
Postgraduate education is reacting to world events, with switched-on universities offering new degrees for students with an international outlook and a passion for current affairs.GAP YEARS - ABROAD
The gap year has been subjected to some recent bad press. Its critics question the value of getting your parents to cough up for you to hang around on a sanitised beach in Thailand for seven months – and they’re right.A Gap In the Skilled Workforce
Not so long ago, a return to education for most people involved recreational learning at night school, and informal classes such as pottery or car mechanics…no longer the case. Now, it's a matter of national economic importance.Undiscovered University Towns
As any student knows, the place you choose to study is as important as your choice of course - and the diversity in styles of university is vast. Are you drawn to a campus-style university like Nottingham or Warwick or would you prefer a university which snakes through – and, in some cases, dominates - a town like St Andrew’s or Durham?...
'Home is where the Gap Year is'
“With students potentially graduating with up to £20,000 of debt, having an idea of what you’d like to do afterwards through doing an internship with, say, a law or accountancy firm, has obviously benefits.
CLEARING - A RE-CAP
Are you still waiting to find the course that will shape your future after getting your A-level grades last week? If you are then you need to keep calm.
DON'T BE AFRAID TO BE RADICAL
Those who labour under the impression that all universities are ancient seats of learning offering similarly traditional courses in classics and mathematics are in for a shock.
Make Your Mark
For second-year Kingston University student, Robert Soltanie, the campus is the ideal hothouse for breeding business projects.
Clearing Success Story
Jessica Lomas, 21, from Buckinghamshire is about to start working with London market research company Harris Interactive. She gained a first-class honours degree in Social Sciences after being rejected by her chosen university and going through Clearing.
Scholar Hunt
After years of being accused of dumbing down television, reality TV is playing it smart. A new show, Airtel Scholar Hunt: Destination UK, is offering students in India the chance to win an all-expenses paid degree course at one of five British universities. Jade Goody need not apply.
Clearing Guide
After hearing what A-level grades/Scottish highers they demanded, you had to accept one as your Firm offer and probably selected another as an Insurance offer. If your grades weren't high enough for either, then you will have been automatically entered into the Clearing system.INTERVIEW WITH JASON FLEMYNG
Actor Jason Flemyng has starred in films such as the award-winning Brit gangster flick Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and stars alongside Robert de Niro, Peter O’Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer and Claire Danes in the forthcoming film adaptation of Neil Gaimanâs 1997 graphic novel, Stardust * directed by Matthew Vaughn.Considering options under a calm duress
Linda Blair is an independent clinical psychologist. She says students who do not make their grades should not even think about doing anything while in the grip of panic and disappointment. If possible, she says, it is far better to take a few hours to consider the options calmly before starting the clearing process.
Disappointing Results?... Not the end of the world
Although opening a results envelope today to reveal disappointing grades may make you feel desperate, you still have choices. Before you give up and embark on a life filled with dead-end jobs, re-sitting your exams could be a way to get your academic career back on track, and maybe even turn an unfortunate situation to your advantage. Jo Bigger, a lead community Connexions advisor in Camden and her team will be sitting down with students today and throughout the next few weeks to explore their options with them.
University isn't the only option
“Saving people’s lives, whether by carrying out a rescue at a fire or educating them about fire safety, is probably one of the most rewarding things anyone can do,” she emphasizes. “There is a broad range of roles here – whether your talents are in languages, communication skills or management, for example. This is the best career choice I could have made.”
Navigating Clearing
If university is your desired destination and you’ve got lower grades than expected, you’ll need to consider your options. If you’ve narrowly missed the grades required for your first or second choice offers, contact the admissions tutors immediately, as they may still be able to accept you.
Turn yourself into a business leader..
Next week Kanta Pindoria will attend her graduation ceremony at Middlesex University – and launch her new business KP Training and Consultancy, working to provide services for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
A Head Start At Cass Business School
Future graduates of CityUniversity’s Sir John Cass Business School were recently offered a significant head start in their financial services careers when the school became the first of a select group of UK universities to be designated a Securities & Investment Institute (SII) Centre of Excellence.Diplomas: seeking practical progress
A new survey by educational foundation Edge, has uncovered damning evidence that the Government has a long way to go to convince teachers and further education lecturers that vocational Diplomas will be suitable for young people across the whole ability range.London Leads in International Education: More popular than New York or Sydney
At almost 83,000*, London has more international students in higher education than its two main rivals - New York and Sydney. And over 60,000 are from non-EU countries, with China (7,715) and India (4,340) leading the way.London Leads in International Education: More popular than New York or Sydney
At almost 83,000*, London has more international students in higher education than its two main rivals - New York and Sydney. And over 60,000 are from non-EU countries, with China (7,715) and India (4,340) leading the way.The Fashion Retail Academy
As the UK’s second biggest employer, retail is a vast and diverse sector which depends on the talent and skills of the next generation of designers, buyers, merchandisers, marketers for a successful future.
The Health & Fitness Industry
As London and the UK prepare for the 2012 Olympics, the opportunities to work in the health and fitness industries are growing and there are lots of courses on offer in adult education centres, through private providers and through charities which will help you access this marketNext Step after Vocational qualifications
Students could be accepted onto a range of Access courses, foundation years - or foundation degrees which are designed to set them up for undergraduate study.
On course for a fresh beginning
From puppetry to wine tasting – why not pick up a new skill with a part-time class?
Don’t delay study plans for the NHS
The National Health Service celebrates its 60th birthday this year, the career opportunities it offers are growing up, too.
It’s not too late to get on the right course….
While your head might be full of A-level coursework, this is the term when it pays to make some big decisions about your future – particularly if you’re thinking about going to university next year.
Raising Funds for a Gap Year
Harry Harris, 19, of Essex, needed to raise £4,000 to go on his dream conservation trip to Belize during his gap year. He combined a spell of work with two high-class fundraising events, which used every contact he could muster to achieve his goal.
Is Clearing 'Clear' to you?
A recent poll of over 1,300 pupils across England who are expecting their A level results today found that over two-thirds weren’t confident they knew how clearing works in the event they didn’t get the grades they needed to get into their first or second choice of university..