A new NHS website should prove useful to those wondering what they can do, work-wise, with their particular degree subject. Aptly entitled ‘whatcanIdowithmydegree’, the website can be used by all students/graduates of all disciplines. As there are around 350 NHS careers to choose from all graduates should find something to suit their talents and interests.
www.whatcanidowithmydegree.nhs.uk
The full Guardian University League tables 2009, can be accessed on the Education Guardian website. Compiled in conjunction with Campus Pi, the new set of rankings are derived from the latest HESA and NSS statistics. Each HE institution receives a score based on the 7 measures below:
- course teaching quality as rated by final year students
- course assessment as rated by final year students
- spending per student
- staff/student ratio
- job prospects
- comparison of students' degree results with their entry qualifications
- entry score-the average Ucas tariff of students accepted on to the course.
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The UCAS website warns students, parents & advisers to watch out for fraudulent emails purporting to be from UCAS or from universities or colleges. These emails are asking applicants to confirm sensitive information such as:
- usernames
- passwords
- email account passwords etc
UCAS warns applicants that no email seeming to originate from UCAS, GTTR, CUKAS or UKPASS would ask for such information.
Applicants are advised NOT reply to such emails, instead to pass them on to:
servicedesk@ucas.ac.uk or contact the university or college direct for advice.
Source: http://www.ucas.com
More warnings about what personal information NOT to upload onto Facebook and other social networking sites:
- Bebo: a young female disclosed her date of birth & eBay password on Bebo, to a ‘friend’ she was emailing about a future school reunion. Within hours, £3,000 had been taken from her bank account.
- Facebook: An affluent young Scottish businessman recently boasted about his luxury lifestyle on the site- and later found that his bank account had been emptied of £30k by fraudsters
Quote: "Many people think they are too smart to be conned and would recognise the scams, but they do not have any idea about how professional these (scams] are. They have come a long way since the days when they were mis-spelt, amateurish and clearly made up.”
Police warn that social networkers should be as careful when entering details about themselves as they would be if they were checking their bank accounts online. What NOT to enter on any internet chat room includes:
- e-mail address
- date of birth
- home address
- home/mobile phone numbers
See Fraudsters net a fortune in Facebook scam
Dundee university is to launch a unique law degree this Autumn, which will qualify graduates in both Scottish & English/Welsh law.
The dual LLB will permit its graduates to fulfil the professional requirements of both the Law Society of Scotland and the Law Society of England and Wales. The new course has restructured the ‘two distinct LLB streams’ so that students on the Scots LLB degree can take modules in English Law in their 3rd & 4th years. Modules studied will include: obligations, criminal law and process, and trusts and land.
Graduates will have the choice of following the English or Scottish training routes to qualification as a solicitor.
Quote the law school’s senior lecturer: "We have had the separate Scots and English LLBs for quite some considerable time now. What we have noticed over the last five to six years is that students on both streams have come to us and said they would like to do both. The big Scots firms have practices in London, in particular. This will open up new avenues for them as they set out on their careers. It makes it far easier for graduates with all the required subjects to become fully qualified as a solicitor in multiple jurisdictions, offering them new flexibility across the UK. We are in a time of change in legal education. "
Sources: Dundee dual degree offers a unique choice
and Dundee University : News/Law
London youngsters can apply for free media training via the 'TowerHamletsSummerUniversity'. The training forms part of a six-month project Reel Change, funded by the LDA, and focused on gathering youth perspectives of London.
Six courses will be on offer covering all aspects of media work. One hundred 13-19 year olds will be invited to participate in the filming.
Quote the head of the TowerHamletsSummerUniversity: "The Reel Change project is giving young people the chance to speak out and make a positive contribution to life in London, while gaining fantastic experience in areas such as film making and journalism." Aiming to be inclusive, applications are invited from young people who are not in education, employment or training, and the disabled, as well as all other groups of youngsters.
See also the Peer Motivator scheme- details & application form on the website below.
http://www.summeruni.org/
