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The practical approach to teacher training

A PGCE allows you to get classroom experience alongside an academic qualification, says Helena Pozniak

Give yourself a competitive edge by starting your course in January

Buck tradition by enrolling on a programme beginning in the New Year and you could earn your degree and start looking for a job while others are still embroiled in their studies. By Stephen Hoare

Bridging the gap: Why taking an overseas internship could really boost your prospects

Internships can be a springboard into a high-flying career. But with increasing competition for fewer spots, how best can ambitious youngsters get a foothold in the corporate market?

Stay sane and solvent while funding your further studies

Saving for a second degree in the current environment is daunting, but it can be done, explains Steve McCormack

Bridging the gap: Why taking an overseas internship could really boost your prospects

Internships can be a springboard into a high-flying career. But with increasing competition for fewer spots, how best can ambitious youngsters get a foothold in the corporate market?

Put yourself in the frame for a creative career

An Arts PhD can boost your chances of a job in education or the public sector, says Jessica Moore

Sports science: join the elite giving British athletes a cutting edge

The UK’s sports science graduates are leading the pack, says Stephen Hoare

Start up: digital DIY makes for good business

Although the predicted cuts in public sector funding are yet to translate into substantial job losses, the UK government is already searching for ways that the private sector can plug the employment gap.

'Sprechen sie Deutsch? Nein? No problem...'

Lucy Lee didn’t have grand globetrotting plans. At school, she assumed she would follow the usual route: GCSEs and A-levels at a local school, hopefully leading to a degree at a UK university. That’s pretty much how things panned out – until she set her heart on postgraduate study at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (KHB) in Berlin.

Work placements in the US are no longer an American dream

With student debt at an all-time high and companies continuing to tighten their belts, prospects can seem bleak for the latest crop of university leavers. Work experience has long been a staple path to securing permanent employment, and it is undeniable that in a straightened economy internships can provide a vital foothold on the increasingly vertiginous rockface of the corporate job market.

Is now the right time to get back on course?

It’s a new year – and a financially bleak one if all the economic predictions are to be believed. In 2011 many of us may find ourselves working longer, earning less and finding it a struggle to pay the bills.

How much will the budget cuts affect your studies?

As uncertainty looms over higher education funding, Hilary Wilce looks at how postgraduates will be affected

Postgraduate Lives: 'I can fly around on the simulator to my heart's content'

Emma Timson, 23, is nine months into a PhD, as a member of a flight science and technology research group at the University of Liverpool, whose work centres on standards for helicopter flight simulators.

Are league tables essential when choosing where to study?

Amid a welter of varied sources of course information, Kate Hilpern looks at how to use indices to your advantage

The creative young minds making their voices heard

A Masters in radio production can thrust you straight into the front line of audio media. James Morrison tunes in
Is it time to give up on tigers and pandas?

Is it time to give up on tigers and pandas?

Saving endangered species
National Gallery: Room for one more at the back

National Gallery

Room for one more at the back
James Lawton: Boxing's best support act? Far from it. Frazier was an authentic warrior

James Lawton

Joe Frazier was an authentic warrior
FA opens doors on academy to 'inspire and stimulate'

FA opens doors on academy

Governing body has big plans for England's new St George's Park training base after a string of false starts
You think Spain are good? Look who can't get a game...

You think Spain are good?

Look who can't get a game...
The ten best: yoga gear

The 10 best: yoga gear

From books and blocks to bags and blankets
Skiing: mountain high, prices low

Mountain high, prices low

The cost of a winter sports holiday doesn't have to give you the chills
Mozambique: an idyll awakes from its slumber

Mozambique awakes from its slumber

Ibo island could soon be back on the tourist map
The man who turned his back on a million-dollar lifestyle

I turned my back on a million-dollar lifestyle

A near-fatal accident made Rohan Narse realise that he had to change
Philippe Starck: 'I'd rather save lives than be a designer'

Philippe Starck interview

"I'd rather save lives than be a designer"
The ballad of Rasha and Devorah

The ballad of Rasha and Devorah

The blind, mentally disabled piano virtuoso from the West Bank and her Jewish teacher
Tributes to Philip Gould, a giant in life and in death

Tributes to Philip Gould, a giant in life and in death

Philip Gould will be mourned by the party he helped into power
Olympic athletes to train on timber from 'endangered' forests

So much for a "truly green Games"?

Olympic athletes to train on timber from 'endangered' forests
Endurance events: Going beyond the burn

Going beyond the burn

Why are we pushing ourselves harder, further and faster?
The ten best health monitors

The ten best health monitors

From Tens machines to head lice combs