Courses & Careers

As the nation’s favourite destination for student news and careers advice, Young Academic is delighted to be able to bring you news regarding www.youpijob.co.uk. This is an online service community that matches jobseekers with employers. [...]

From site managers to designers to contracts experts, a career in office refurbishment offers so many exciting roles within a dynamic and ever-changing market. Dealing with clients across the country, office fit-out companies have openings for a wide range of skilled applicants, bringing together know-how and expertise from a range of sectors. If you're fresh [...]

Charles Whitworth takes a look at ‘Positive for Youth’, a government paper designed to give responsibility to the people that matter in his latest education news feature. [...]

With the London Olympics just around the corner, the UK’s supposed ‘lost generation’ is being urged to use this huge event as inspiration and impetus for the future. Young Academic Editor Charles Whitworth examines how young people can use the games to launch their careers and take advantage of the boost that is set [...]

As we head into the third Christmas of the current recession with the outlook showing few signs of improving, many students around the United Kingdom may be wondering how they can shine with the economy in the state that it is. Well Young Academic thought what better way to give you guys some perfect insight [...]

As the nation’s premier education news and student portal, Young Academic can bring you news of a superb service to help you find employment. Following the findings that 79% of students find it incredibly difficult to find a job, Skills Hive can help individuals and businesses through theses uncertain economic times. [...]

As Young Academic can exclusively reveal, Punch Communications have launched the FuturePR campaign in search of a star intern. In what could prove to be one of the career schemes of 2011, the PR agency will give one of you the chance to prove you have what it takes to make it in one of [...]

Graduates begin to question the value of a university education as a recent SHL study has revealed that 73 percent of UK graduates would consider moving abroad to find work, whilst 60 percent of graduates from the last three years have yet to find a graduate job. [...]

As Young Academic had learnt, graduates are increasingly unlikely to find themselves with a place on a graduate scheme. As the number of student graduating vastly outstrips the number of places available, the national employability campaign could well help. Make sure you follow us at @youngacademic to keep up to date with all the developments [...]

Nicholas Jervis, founder of the solicitor matching service Loyalty Law and creator of the UK’s first Twitter Law Firm, @thelegaloracle, gives Young Academic his top ten tips on how to tell if a career in law is right for you. Make sure you sign-up to the Young Academic twitter and facebook pages to keep up [...]