Thinking Of Repaying Your Student Loan?

The halcyon year of interest free and even shrinking Student Loans Company rates has ended. For the 2010/11 academic year the rate is now 1.5% or 4.4%, depending on when you took it out. So the question is "should I pay off my student loan?"

Employing graduates: Easy as 1,2,3?

A continuing high level of unemployment among graduates, where 10% of the total graduate population failed to find any form of graduate jobs last year, provokes the question: are universities adequately equipping students with the transferable skills required for the workplace?

US college graduates are less choosy as they launch into their work lives

One year ago, the Class of 2009 left college and jumped into one of the worst job markets in history.

Cautionary tales about the real world were quickly passed down to younger students: Searching six months for a job, waitressing and bartending stints, moving home with mom and dad, racking up more debt.

Students not learning employment skills, say teachers

A teachers' group has called on the government to boost British youngsters' job prospects by helping them to learn skills which would give them an advantage in the competitive employment market.

Graduates swap City life for marketing

Students failing to find work in the City are considering graduate marketing jobs instead, according to observers, a welcome trend for employers looking to add business talent to their teams.

Graduate Tax Unlikely

A "full blown" tax on graduates is unlikely but ways for them to contribute to their studies are being examined, Universities Minister David Willetts has said.

Graduates should look beyond recruitment schemes, says expert

New graduates concerned about their prospects in the highly competitive UK employment market should not view graduate schemes as the be all and end all of job hunting, an expert has claimed.

Today's Top Graduate Job - Graduate Product Sales Specialist

Graduate Product Sales Specialist - OTE £28k - Lincolnshire

Today's Top Graduate Job - Graduate Tax Trainee

Graduate Tax Trainee - £Neg - Scotland

Graduate Jobs and the New A*

Yesterday, A-Level students were awarded the A* for the first time. This new grade has been awarded to help universities differentiate between the best students but there will undoubtedly be a knock-on effect in the graduate job market.