Understand yourself, your skills and your ideals


Thursday's advice: Understand yourself, your skills and your ideals.  Many employers look for specific skills when recruiting, and a student exhibiting many of these qualities will have an advantage over those who don't. But as you develop skills, you need to understand how they're beneficial. Understanding yourself, your skills and your ideals is about more than … Continue reading Understand yourself, your skills and your ideals

OneStart: Your chance to win £100k to realise your biotech idea


Do you have an idea to solve a critical problem healthcare? Or do you have the scientific or business know-how to help someone else develop their idea? The Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable (OBR) and SR One, the venture capital arm of GlaxoSmithKline, have teamed up again for the OneStart competition - the largest biotech startup accelerator … Continue reading OneStart: Your chance to win £100k to realise your biotech idea

CRCC Asia – Futher ‘Generation UK’ Funding Released


CRCC Asia have 20 funded places available on their Award-Winning China Internship Program in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The places are broken down by regional funding: 12 England 4 Wales 2 Scotland 2 Northern Ireland Funding is available to UK citizens (British passport holders, including Irish passport holders for Northern Irish domiciled), enrolled at a UK … Continue reading CRCC Asia – Futher ‘Generation UK’ Funding Released

Student Internationalisation


Some of you may have seen the recent article in Nouse entitled “Home students must aim higher” published on 1st June 2014. The author raises concerns about home students not engaging with the internationalisation process and lacking intercultural competencies that overseas students have. At Careers we understand how important it is to assist in the creation of internationally competent graduates … Continue reading Student Internationalisation

Postgraduate Scholarships


FindAMasters.com and FindAPhD.com are giving away a total of £9,000 in Postgraduate Scholarships to students who are due to start a postgraduate course at any UK or EEA university in September. The application window for the Scholarships programme is NOW OPEN and you can find out more information and apply here.

Writing opportunities


Shout Out UK and My Student Style are both offering the chance to contribute to their sites. Shout Out UK is an alternative news network with over 3,000 daily readers: www.shoutoutuk.org/write-for-us-2 My Student Style is a training, coaching and mentoring programme for students and written by students: http://mystudentstyle.co.uk/