With many work placements and internships cancelled last year due to lockdown, and a good deal of employers not bothering to get back to failed applicants, thousands of recent university graduates have rushed to study “panic masters” courses. The Observer has the story.
Universities including UCL, Cambridge and Edinburgh, told the Observer they were seeing substantial increases, ranging between 10 and 20%, in the number of U.K. students applying to study for postgraduate degrees in the autumn.
Mary Curnock Cook, an admissions expert who is chairing an independent commission on students, said the rise is due to “a collapse in confidence in the graduate employment market”. There is a backlog of applications from graduates who struggled to secure roles last year or whose placements were cancelled, she said.
“That’s what’s causing this idea of the panic master’s,” she said. “A lot of what I’m hearing is people getting stressed about making tons of applications and not even getting acknowledgement. It’s a stain on employers that they’re not treating their applicants with common courtesy.”
Curnock Cook added that while master’s degrees are usually worthwhile investments since they are favoured by many employers and result in higher average salaries, she advised against “making decisions in a rush for the wrong reasons”, particularly since loans available for postgraduate study does not cover living expenses.
Dan Barcroft, Head of Admissions at Sheffield University, said postgrad study has been especially popular among undergraduates planning to remain at the university, with application numbers rising by 35%. “People are choosing to stay in education at a time of economic turbulence,” he said. …
Last year top graduate employers cut vacancies by nearly a half, although some jobs have been reinstated this year. There are particular shortages of entry-level roles in the industries that have been worst affected by the pandemic, including travel, hospitality and retail.
A recent survey of more than 2,000 students by advice service Prospects showed that over a third of university finalists are changing their career plans due to the pandemic, while two-thirds who are planning postgraduate study are choosing to do so to switch career path.
Nearly half of university students said they felt unprepared for the job market, citing a lack of experience, vacancies and their skills as the main barriers.
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He’s going to be barred from standing in any future election, so this is irrelevant.
There won’t be any future elections.
The way things are going I wouldn’t be surprised!
But it will help prevent the spread of ‘the virus’, so it’s perfectly OK.
Quite so. As I said yesterday, what really worries me is what happens when someone competent, hard-working and dominating gets into his shoes. Inevitably, it is the very worst people, with zero empathy or care for others, who get to the top and, in an increasingly totalitarian world, that will include Hitlers and Stalins. Bad enough now, but we ain’t seen nothing yet!!
You can mark Matt Hancock down for that. He thinks he’s saved the country.
All hail King Matt.
You seem to be suggesting that Johnson is harmless. Even if that were true he has cleared the ground, got rid of the Overton window and made it clear that anything is possible to dictator.
That has already happened, Gove is the man in power. Boris is just the puppet.
ok i’ll bite.. why not?
Killed far more people (+millions in the 3rd world) through lockdowns and making the NHS a Covid only ‘service’ for 9 months (as the sole government in the world), than were killed through and with Covid- a number which we increased significantly through our reckless policy of sending people from hospitals into nursing homes untested, and by censoring, diffamating, manipulating and withholding data on the cheap, effective, safe and available treatments for Covid and those treatments themselves, and, possibly, by coercing people en masse into getting only rushed gene therapies instead.
This was inspired by Leonardo Conti and Josef Mengele, of course.
Stats from the Care Quality Commission show 3 out of 5 deaths from Covid last year were disabled folk with illegal DNR’s slapped on them; can’t remember what percentage (high) of those were people with learning difficulties. Sounds pretty Mengele to me!
Did Prince Philip die with or from covid? Or is he the only person to die on Britain for over a year by natural causes
Vaccine….
Yes. He had recently had the vaccine. We should keep an eye on ma’am, as she had it at the same time.
espec if she still has to get second dose and is also heartbroken at loss of husband – could soon be a case of all hail King Charles
The crucial question, though, is when lockdowns return. The local elections 6 May, G7 11-13 June and then the big one, Mr Johnson’s wedding in July, mean that restrictions will be mainly dropped to accommodate the Govt’s real priorities. But after that? The ‘return’ of ‘flu, the Ruritanian variant and climate change targets will have us slammed down from next Oct, I believe.
I have wondered if Mr Johnson is fully aware of the nature of his fiancée, and is dragging this out due to dread of telling her that the wedding is off, and sod the rest of us.
I often wonder if she was planted.
Unlikely that she was planted, as he’s the vegetable.
I have often cheekily wondered if the ban on weddings has not been convenient for him.
No. I think the Azerbaijan variant is the really dangerous one to watch – but not until after the wedding, obviously.
Only if we, along with the rest of Europe, allow them to get away with it.
Johnson has always had a reputation for fickleness and unreliability, but his transformation from fun-loving libertarian to joyless woke authoritarian is beyond parody. I’ll be voting for an anti-lockdown candidate in the forthcoming local elections; and if no such candidate is standing, I’ll simply spoil the ballot paper.
My wife spoke to someone today who is convinced that he has been killed 4 years ago already and been replaced with a Doppelgänger…
As good an explanation as any.
Is Wilfred real? The original pictures weren’t very convincing to be honest.
Me too.
Shouldn’t that be Boris Rong Un?
Kim Jong Johnson
Never voting Tory again … I just might be persuaded to change my mind if Boris is removed and given a lengthy prison sentence along with his entire cabinet and then replaced with someone like Sir Charles Walker maybe … who seems to be genuine enough and share my concerns about the governments tyrannical response to covid19 and the removal of our freedoms and liberty in this country since March last year … the problem I have though is that I also trusted Boris Johnston once upon a time to be a guardian of our freedoms and liberties only for him to do a complete about turn and transform himself into a cross between Caroline Lucas and Pol Pot. That is my fear about voting for any Tory candidate again – they all seem to change their tune once they get into power drop their conservatism and become Blairites instead
If there is an anti-lockdown candidate in the area (Reclaim, Reform whatever) they will definitely get my vote otherwise my ballot paper gets spoiled.
Me too; been a Tory voter for 50 years but never ever again! Still have to pinch myself some mornings when I wake up to believe that a Tory Government had reduced us to that of a totalitarian police state.
How many female Tory MPs claim to be huge Margaret Thatcher fans only to turn into Yvette Cooper as soon as they are elected?
I can trace my falling out with the conservative party to 1995 when John Redwood lost his leadership battle with John Major. Redwood’s always been a voice of sense and reason and he’s currently on the right side of this issue. Like you I will never vote for them again and regret lending them my vote this time around.
And still they clap.
To be fair to Fat Boy (the younger one), he doesn’t really pretend that he cares about people, so he has the virtue of (murderous) honesty compared to the Fat Man.
The latest polls suggest there enough ‘savients’ willing to give him everlasting leadership.
Polls are often wrong.
Brexit.
Donald Trump…
Dr Naomi Wolf on Vaccine Passports and why they Equal Slavery – The Daily Clout
https://theduran.com/dr-naomi-wolf-on-vaccine-passports-and-why-they-equal-slavery-the-daily-clout/
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
He forgot: Joe Stalin Biden
That one’s most devoted adherent is Little Wrinkly Tortoise Would-Be Josef Stalin Drakeford.
How can so many still support Johnson’s government?! Deranged idiots, the lot of them! Voting for an anti-lockdown party or spoiling your ballot paper is the ONLY rational thing to do.
What a brilliant summary of Boris’ complete and utter destruction of this country. Retweet, Facebook, telegram to every friend and/or enemy. Help get the word out.
Can you count on my vote? No Chance!
Wow, what great article. Puts into stark perspective the damage this country needs to face up to if we are to ever recover real control if our lives
Very apt article. I think we could all add to it.
Time to give the despot a bloody nose at the election box people.
I might cast a futile vote for the Liberal Democrats now they have belatedly started to remember that the name of their party means something.
I enjoyed reading this but will correct you on a Constitutional point.
The Constitution is The English Constitution, most recently affirmed in The 1689 Bill of Rights. A British Constitution has NEVER existed. The English Constitution gives us inalienable Rights. Those Rights have been and continue to be subverted by The British State.
Kim Jong Johnson is a better name but that’s the only quibble.
Johnson and his infandous cabal remind me of the Spitting Image’ sketch with Margaret Thatcher ordering. ‘What about the vegetables? They’ll have the same as me’.