Thursday July 24, 2008

Jobs & Money

Cardiff for FREE

It’s a common realisation for students that despite spending one, two or three years in Cardiff, they have rarely explored their host city beyond the bright lights of the union or St Mary’s Street.

Meet... Mr Wales

Nigel Roberts’ CV is an endless stream of Welsh pride.

His recent Ashes bid put Cardiff on the world map and as managing director of Paramount Interiors his company has an annual turnover over £12 million for 2006-2007: figures we debt ridden students can only dream of.

The Name’s Bond...

Handing over a month’s rent as a deposit for your student house might seem like a distant memory.

But whether you’re leaving university or moving onto pastures new in the student housing market, that money should be coming back to you when you leave your property at the end of June.

I know what you did...

Three months, fifteen weeks, 105 days; a big void in the student calendar.

Respite between semesters of intense work. Well, for the liver at least. Simple.

Graduate vacancies at ten year high

An independent survey of the UK’s leading graduate employers has found that the increase in graduate vacancies for 2008 is the biggest in 10 years.

Ethical Entrepreneurs

You might have seen One Water for sale in the union, university cafeterias and watering holes of Cathays such as Kappucino’s for some time now.

Surfing to Success

As the essay deadlines pass and exams come ever closer, students from first year to postgraduates are thinking about what they’re going to do over those long summer months, and beyond, to earn a bit of cash.

Cardiff’s Next Top Model

The modelling agency that discovered Sienna Miller, Agnes Deyn and Daisy Lowe is giving a Cardiff student the chance to become their on-campus talent scout.

A Corporate Education

Businesses will help to fund 20 000 university places as part of the government’s ongoing plans to improve people’s skills in the work place.

Her Majesty’s Pleasure

Universities Secretary John Denham has revealed that prisoners in the UK have received up to £730 000 in student loans over the last decade; three times more than the government stated earlier in the year.

The Best of Both Worlds

After University I had no clue what I wanted to do.

I had just studied for three years to get my law degree and even though I enjoyed it, after three years I had had enough.

Why pay more?

It was reported last week that the number of foreign students using internet essay writing services has increased three-fold in the last year.

Student Tax Awareness Week

It’s certainly not the most exciting thing in the world.

But losing money to the tax man could make a serious dent in your already limited student budget- especially when you could be entitled to keep your earnings completely tax free.

Graduate

Chris Roebuck, 22, graduated with a Computing degree in 2007. He now works as a Software Developer at an Investment Bank in London.

What is your full time job title?

State of Play

Whist The Times has reported that University applications have fallen, the BBC have suggested that applications have risen.

Top up fees? Stop them please!

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Top-Up Fees are the most stupid idea since smoking.

Charging students with little or no earning power (by virtue of being in full-time education) ever increasing amounts to receive a service that once was free.