Chancellor Wants Recruiting Expansion To Scotland
Chancellor Gordon Brown said recently that every effort would be made to expand the graduate job market to businesses and offices throughout Scotland. Brown stated that the British government would push to have 500,000 new graduates enter the Scottish job force by 2050. Brown and other members of the British government are concerned with the United Kingdom’s role in the new global economy, particularly in areas like Scotland with a high population of unskilled workers. As such, British leaders are making a push to increase the technology sector in the United Kingdom and become the hub for new economic forces in the Western Hemisphere.
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CIPD Assessment Has Graduates, Businesses, And Government Cautious About Market Overconfidence
Recent reports by a variety of government and non-governmental agencies alike have given hope to graduates and businesses alike about the job market, wages, and the overall cost of living. However, a study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organiation devoted to studying the British job market, is pleading a more sober assessment of the job market as not to lead to overconfidence.
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Graduates And Business Cannot Meet In Norfolk
Recent reports by the eastern England job recruiters and businesses in the Norfolk community have revealed that graduates are seriously underemployed in that community and others like it in the eastern half of England. Businesses throughout Norfolk and eastern England are offering a variety of reasons why they have not been actively recruiting this untouched talent pool
of recent graduates
. Businesses big and small are worried that hiring a local graduate is not a long-term investment. The feeling among corporations located in Norfolk is that university graduates are looking for jobs in bigger communities and on the international level, making a permanent job temporary for these graduates. As well, many businesses looking for technical or office professionals are concerned that graduates are overqualified and will expect higher wages than their colleagues without a university degree.
As such, landing a job and keeping it are becoming increasing challenging.
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Scottish Universities Experiencing Third Year Of Decreased Admissions
For businesses looking to Scottish universities for exceptional new talents, the Scottish university graduate is slowly going extinct. For the third straight year, according to admissions survey service UCAS, Scottish universities have admitted fewer students from Scottish and British communities. The reasons for this basic decrease in admissions comes from the increased pressure for academic standards, as well as the ever increasing applications coming from the United Kingdom and Europe. High tuition prices and application fees are also contributing to lower admissions. Scottish and British students alike will apply to a wide range of universities to give themselves options, without consideration to the financial obligations of attendance. In the end, many of these universities lose out to the more prestigious British schools or less expensive vocational programs.
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Student Loan Repayment Woes For UK Graduates
With over 13,000 pounds of debt waiting for them after graduation, UK graduates and young professionals have a serious financial obligation to fulfill in the first few years of their career. The average entry level salary for UK graduates is around 14,000 pounds, which means that individual professionals will struggle right out of university with living expenses on top of their debt. It is tough enough for students to pay off these debts when the process is running smoothly and they know exactly how much they owe. However, the recent news that the Student Loan Company and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been failing in their stewardship over student loan programs means that tens of thousands of graduates will need to become amateur accountants in order to retrieve money owed to them.
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Government Reveals Drastic Rise in Teachers and Education Professionals
The Labour Party has spent the last ten years in control of the British government touting their investment in education at all levels. In testimony to Parliament this week, former Education Secretary David Blunkett came armed with proof that this investment has paid off. Blunkett’s evidence to questioning MPs came in the form of increased jobs within the educational system throughout Great Britain, which he deemed a great story and example of how educational investment benefits everyone in the nation.
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Office Place Discrimination Centers Around Age According To Chartered Management
Recent reports by organisations like Age Concern, which are devoted to exposing age discrimination in the workplace, have shown that age discrimination for young and old workers alike is increasing. These reports, along with anecdotal evidence by workers throughout the United Kingdom, have come as people are responding to the relatively new age discrimination laws passed by Parliament in October 2006. These laws have made it illegal to discriminate based on age for workers and applicants under 65, including redundancies and other means of forcing employees out.
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers Unveils The Multiple Benefits of University Education
The benefits of a university degree in the United Kingdom have been the focus of much contention and discussion over the last decade. As more graduates are leaving universities every spring, there are an increasingly limited number of job opportunities for highly qualified professionals. However, a new report commissioned by Universities UK, a representative of vice chancellors throughout the region, and conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that the benefits of university degrees are still multi-faceted.
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Research Shows Draw of Higher Education and Jobs for Dropouts
There has been much consternation in the British Parliament and educational circles on the issue of extended compulsory education to 18 from its current level of 16 years old. A report by the Learning and Skills Council, which is tasked with educational services for students 16 years and older, seems to add some fuel to the fire. The Council’s recent release of information on 16 year old students who drop out of education shows that many of these students come back within five years to gain further education. This report is the opening salvo in a new debate on compulsory education, with Education Secretary Alan Johnson preparing a response soon.
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Study Shows Drastic Decrease in the Teaching Of Languages and Sciences
A recent study performed by the University and College Union (UCU) has demonstrated a drastic dip in the provision of language and sciences courses at universities throughout the United Kingdom. The study, published this past week, was conducted over the last two years to provide a comparison of the decreased courses in languages, physics, chemistry, and other courses of value to university graduates.
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