Landing your dream job in a time of unemployment

Finding work is a major concern for almost every tertiary education graduate. Unemployment is a massive problem the world over though due to a myriad of factors including the economic recession, technology replacing workers, and an excess of qualified people.

Another crippling effect is student loans. Many students take out loans in order to study and provide for their futures. As if the unemployment problem isn’t enough, these students have huge loans to repay once their studies are complete.

“Occupy” Higher Education

The unemployment problem and student loan crisis is not unique to South Africa. Christopher Guizlo, an American student, writes about...

Landing your dream job in a time of unemployment

Finding work is a major concern for almost every tertiary education graduate. Unemployment is a massive problem the world over though due to a myriad of factors including the economic recession, technology replacing workers, and an excess of qualified people.

Another crippling effect is student loans. Many students take out loans in order to study and provide for their futures. As if the unemployment problem isn’t enough, these students have huge loans to repay once their studies are complete.

“Occupy” Higher Education

The unemployment problem and student loan crisis is not unique to South Africa. Christopher Guizlo, an American student, writes about...

Launch of the Master in Sustainable Development

Launch of the Master in Sustainable Development

The International University of Monaco celebrates the launch of its newest program – the Master in Sustainable Development – by joining the United Nations’ Higher Education Sustainability Initiative.

On the occasion of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 (Rio+20) the Dean, Dr. Patras, signed the Declaration committing to support the following actions:

- Teach sustainable development concepts, ensuring that they form a part of the core curriculum across all disciplines so that future higher education graduates develop skills necessary to enter sustainable development workforces and have an explicit understanding of...

Korean colleges offer unusual majors

This article reports that vocational schools are coming up with some creatively-named majors recently. Some of them are more off the wall than others, though. Smartphone studies… coffee-chocolate studies, dessert cafe major, traditional fermented foods studies… This year vocational colleges, which offer marketable skills that companies want, have been creating unusual new types of majors....