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  • Graduate Employability Award

    As a result of the report “working towards your future” we published with the CBI, it was clear that almost 70% of students wanted a nationally recognised employability award.  Similarly, students’ unions had provided policy to NUS requesting a similar project.  After a...

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  • An introduction to the problems

    Simply googling a selection of words including 'employment', 'employability', 'student' and 'jobs' and you'll be faced with a barrage of information, lots of lengthy reports and data that seemingly as soon as you've read, it's out of date and someone else has something more accur...

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  • Careers Service Charter

    Working with the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) and other partners, NUS has prepared a graduate careers service charter which outlines some of the best practice around the UK where universities are working to improve employment prospects for their gradu...

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  • Employment Commission

    In order to encourage students and students’ unions to think about how they can lead the change necessary in order to deal with some of the biggest issues in employment, employability and entrepreneurialism today, we’ve launched a Commission on Employment to look at issues and ac...

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  • The Modern Jobs Economy

    A week barely goes by without further sobering headlines about the labour market, issues around youth unemployment, and the value of education to the economy. All of these issues, so intrinsically linked, matter to our members across sixth forms, colleges and universities, and to...

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