Further

A-Z of Courses: Glass-blowing

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Recipe for a great career: How college gave one man the ingredients to succeed in the restaurant business

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Restaurateur James Thomson didn't like school. Much of his time was spent looking out of the windows at the old buildings of Edinburgh, fantasising about their history and the people who had lived there. What Thomson did like was working. Aged 12, he became a dishwasher at Crawford's tearooms on North Bridge. "My grandmother had a cashier job there, and they were always short of dishwashers, so I was called in. I loved the theatre of the place – they served morning coffee, lunches and high tea, and had old-fashioned cake stands and waitresses who all mothered me and gave me strawberry tarts to eat. I also helped the chef. I loved things like the smell of the coffee and cheeses, and the whole ambience of the place."

John Bingham: 'Governors are having more impact and reporting greater job satisfaction than before'

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Chief executive officer of the Fitness Industry Association

How training can help you develop the skills for survival

Thursday, 5 November 2009

The downturn is no time to abandon training. Kate Hilpern argues that it's the point when you need it most

With distance learning, not being in the same country as your university isn't a problem

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Bought anything on eBay recently? A flight booked online, perhaps? Or maybe surfed around looking at insurance premiums? We do so much of our own business online these days that it's hardly a revolutionary idea to learn about business via the internet. That explains the healthy supply of online and distance-learning postgraduate courses in the field of business education. The Association of Business Schools (ABS) lists higher-education institutions offering one or other model of distance learning, leading to a management-related Masters.

A clearer future: Why sustainability graduates are in hot demand

Thursday, 29 October 2009

It's not a word you would have seen in course titles 10 years ago, but Masters courses in sustainability have been popping up in many universities and business schools over the past few years. One of the first was at the Centre for Research Into Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London, which offers an MSc in sustainability and management. The course, taught between the management and geography departments, was first offered in 2004.

Rise to the challenge: Stand out from the crowded jobs market with a Masters in business management

Thursday, 29 October 2009

With one in 10 of this summer's graduates expected to be unemployed six months after leaving university – a sharp rise on previous years – applications for postgraduate courses have jumped. It seems that recent graduates, frustrated by the toughest jobs market in more than a decade, are taking to heart recent findings from the Higher Education Statistics Agency showing that holders of postgraduate degrees are likely to get higher paid and better jobs than those with only one degree.

John Bingham: 'This reform will improve the support that governors need'

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Chair of the board, Association of Colleges

Degrees of comfort: Where to find smaller classes and caring lecturers

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Some students prefer to take university-level courses at further education colleges, where they get smaller classes, a more hands-on approach and help with employment when they graduate.

The joy of studying without moving

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Distance learning provides an opportunity to 'future proof' your career.