"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" Such, I imagine, will be the expressions of joy throughout Whitehall (which I also, it appears, imagine to be staffed entirely by fans of Jabberwocky) at the news that they are to be granted permission to work from home this summer in order to take pressure off themselves and the public transport system during the Olympics and Paralympics. I understand the impulse to exult. When I worked in an office, during endless temp jobs and as a trainee solicitor in the city, it was my greatest, fondest, most golden dream to be allowed to work from home. Imagine – no commute! No watchful authority figures! A cup of coffee whenever you feel like it, drunk at a leisurely pace on ... Continue reading →
Further education colleges have been awarded over half the extra student places allotted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. How have the places been shared out, and between which institutions? Continue reading →
Previous winners will discuss the impact winning an award has had on their career. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Are you thinking about entering the Guardian Student Media Awards? Well, aspiring journos take note - according to the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley: "This could be one of the most important deadlines of your career." The benefits of the accolade, you see, stretch far beyond gaining an extra line of comment-worthy fodder on your CV. According to previous winners - including Andrew - success in the awards provided them with encouragement and the confidence to pursue a career in this brutally competitive industry. Certainly a wise move, when you look at where they've ended up. Polly Curtis went on to become the Guardian's Whitehall correspondent after ... Continue reading →
Celebrity presenter worth her place on screen …Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest. Photograph: BBC2 No sooner has presenter Francesco da Mosta finished touring Italy with his version of Shakespeare (for those of you who missed Da Mosta's BBC2 series, the bard was a secret visitor to Francesco's native land and its swoopingly romantic people taught him everything he knew about "the arrrrt of loffff". In return, he laid some of his scenes in Verona and gave a four-century boost to tourism), than up pops the almost-as-fruitily-voiced Felicity Kendal – she always sounds to me like oranges being agonisingly squeezed – to take us travelling round India to examine his influence there.Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest (BBC2) traced the arrival of the plays in India – ... Continue reading →
Previous winners will discuss the impact winning an award has had on their career. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Are you thinking about entering the Guardian Student Media Awards? Well, aspiring journos take note - according to the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley: "This could be one of the most important deadlines of your career." The benefits of the accolade, you see, stretch far beyond gaining an extra line of comment-worthy fodder on your CV. According to previous winners - including Andrew - success in the awards provided them with encouragement and the confidence to pursue a career in this brutally competitive industry. Certainly a wise move, when you look at where they've ended up. Polly Curtis went on to become the Guardian's Whitehall correspondent after ... Continue reading →
Previous winners will discuss the impact winning an award has had on their career. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Are you thinking about entering the Guardian Student Media Awards? Well, aspiring journos take note - according to the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley: "This could be one of the most important deadlines of your career." The benefits of the accolade, you see, stretch far beyond gaining an extra line of comment-worthy fodder on your CV. According to previous winners - including Andrew - success in the awards provided them with encouragement and the confidence to pursue a career in this brutally competitive industry. Certainly a wise move, when you look at where they've ended up. Polly Curtis went on to become the Guardian's Whitehall correspondent after ... Continue reading →
