Distance learning up close
Can students afford to gamble on paying to spend three years at university in our current economic climate? We look at the option of graduating without ever being in the same room as your tutor.
Inside Career Planning
The Careers Adviser: Why can't my boyfriend improve on his 2:2 degree result? And I would like a job, but I don't have experience of work in Britain
Q. My boyfriend has a 2:2 BSc in computer science, but insists on redoing his third year, although his university says it cannot allow him to do so. Is there a way he can apply to retake it elsewhere? Or is there a rule that you can't redo a third year?
Why TEFL is good in a crisis
Everyone is saying it’s going to be harder this year to walk into a graduate job in the autumn. The alternative might be a gap year programme, but what if there’s no spare money kicking around for a year of travel?
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