Lessons from interning: how to stand out while blending in
More graduates are taking on internships than ever before. Five former interns share their wisdom
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Don’t write off academic slow-starters
As an 18-year-old with hormones raging, Andy Sowter didn’t get great A-levels. But he’s certainly made up for it since
Read more1,000 state schools have no applicants to elite career schemes
State-educated applicants to graduate schemes at top firms come from elite pool – report
Read moreEducation experts call for a ‘take your son into university day’
Idea part of plan that aims to address growing attainment gap in England
Read moreCreative industries fear tuition fees will kill supply of talent
Costs put off students who fear being indebted, but there is a wider loss is to the economy
Read moreThe deferred promise of Islamic-world science
Ten years ago, there was excitement about the prospects for science and innovation across the Islamic world. Was this optimism misplaced?
Read moreOxford college to launch scholarship in attempt to address slavery legacy
All Souls, which received substantial payment in 1710 from slave owner, to fund one student a year from Caribbean nations
Read moreOxbridge ‘failing to address diversity’, David Lammy says
MP says universities put pressure on journalists to change stories about lack of black students getting places rather than addressing concerns
Read moreAre Soas students right to ‘decolonise’ their minds from western philosophers?
Outraged headlines erupted when students launched a campaign to challenge the great western philosophers. We went to the source of dissent – London’s School of Oriental and African Studies – to investigate
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