Skipping university for career success

Wednesday 5th August 2015

The Times’ Student Opportunities section looks at how employers are wooing high-achieving school leavers and undergraduates with sponsored degrees, apprenticeships and accelerated development programmes. The papers’ Stephen Hoare talks to Nabarro and Hogan Lovells about their training programmes while Nick Wyke examines how theology and philosophy graduates are experiencing some of the highest rates of employment, with philosophy graduates in the US regularly outperforming their peers from other disciplines in the test to transfer to law school. Separately, the Independent’s Hamish McRae also looks at how a university degree is becoming a smaller part of the skillset employers are focussing on when hiring trainees. He cites Clifford Chance’s "CV blind" policy on recruitment as an example.

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