A student business that outgrew the graduate job market
A Warwick graduate whose hair oil business was rejected six times on Dragons’ Den is now projected to turn over £10 million by 2028. The useful part is the rejection count rather than the revenue: student businesses that work usually do so after several public failures, and most universities run enterprise funds that will back an early attempt. Graduate jobs in the UK covers the conventional route.
Are skills the opposite of education?
A Cambridge professor emerita takes on the skills agenda directly, arguing that the capabilities employers say they want — judgement, synthesis, dealing with uncertainty — are produced by education rather than by training, and that policy has confused the two for a decade. It is the sharpest statement of the counter-argument this year.
League table positions do not buy public support
University leaders have concluded that displaying rankings does nothing to build public legitimacy, and that demonstrating local relevance does. For applicants it is a useful admission from the sector: the tables universities advertise are aimed at each other rather than at anyone deciding where to study.