“Like many children, I dreamt of going into space but never really considered it a possibility,” writes Tim Peake for the BBC, ahead of his departure as the first British European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut to live on board the International Space Station.
So what skills and qualifications do you need to become an astronaut? Growing up, I often heard the answer “perfect vision and a physics degree”. While this response is slightly simplistic, it’s not far off the mark.
UK employers from predominantly business, IT and engineering sectors have revealed which UK universities produce the best graduates for the workplace.
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have taken the top spots in the UK ranking of the Global Employability University Survey 2015.
Thousands of major recruiters around the world have voted on which local and international universities produce the best graduates for their workplace.
The results are published in a Global Employability University Survey and Ranking, revealed exclusively by Times Higher Education today.
Although many of the universities that received the most votes, and are therefore at the top of the employability ranking, are recognised as world-leading institutions, there are a number of surprises.
Revealing information about graduate earning potential for different UK universities and courses could soon be publicly available, as the government works to release anonymised data.
If universities agree to the plan, salary data from HMRC will be cross-referenced with alumni records to provide an insight into the future prospects of students studying specific courses at specific universities.
The information will be handed to web developers, who can use it to build online tools to help students better understand the opportunities available to them.
Hundreds of graduate opportunities are available across the UK in financial services, retail, manufacturing and the public sector, according to research released today.
A list of the top employers, compiled by The Complete University Guide, confirms that financial services firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young hire the most graduates in the UK.
The capital’s universities top the rankings of graduates in employment or further study 12 months after leaving university, with the usual suspects not far behind.
Imperial College London in second place with 91.1 per cent.
From now, you’re getting even more than you bargained for at Times Higher Education – in a good way, of course.
For 12 years we’ve given you rankings, data and table upon table for you to use in one of the most important decisions of your life: which university to choose.
But we want to make that decision process even smoother for you, by guiding you each step of the way and using our resources to help you to really understand all the options on offer and factors to consider.
Studying far from home is an exciting prospect, full of new places, people and adventures in an unfamiliar land.
But what if your desire to go abroad is more strategic? Securing that sought-after graduate job is a worthwhile aspiration to keep in mind, and a study abroad experience can be important for your future career.
Whether or not you hope to use multiple languages in the workplace, international experience gives you precisely the skills that employers are looking for in a global business environment.
The director of Google’s Digital Academy has revealed a new talent test for the next generation of leaders, writing in the World University Rankings 2015-16 supplement released on 30 September.
Shuvo Saha, who recruits and works with ambitious graduates from all over the world, refers to this new type of talent as “cultural intelligence” or “CQ”.
The most successful graduates already display the key skills that make up cultural intelligence, but Mr Saha believes that employers should actively recruit and nurture students with these qualities.