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When I first applied to do a Masters in journalism, I was living in Indonesia and was gripped with a sudden panic about what I was supposed to do when my year long contract finished.

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DON'T 'DISCOUNT' THE IDEA

As a graduate of 2009, I was among the first set of students to experience paying top-up fees in 2006/07. 

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS 8

Kate Ross' blog continues. (To read the first part of this instalment click here)

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS 7

Our blogger, Kate Ross, says a fond farewell to Indonesia - but swings by Sumatra first...

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS 6

Our blogger Kate Ross sees the sights in Sulawesi and falls in love with her adopted country

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HAVE YOUR SAY

Are universities offering students enough quality feedback? David Lanning, recently graduated from Bristol, investigates.

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS 5

Anyone for Tea and Scorpion? Kate Ross talks about her students' improving English, Indonesian night life and some strange food.

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS 4

If you thought the traffic in Britain was bad, you should hear what Kate Ross has to put up with in Jakarta......

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXTBOOKS 3

Kate Ross gets up to some monkey business

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ECONOMIC SNAKES AND LADDERS

One undergraduate questions her choice of degree

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS 2

In the second installment of her adventures in Indonesia, Kate Ross mixes the business of teaching English to hyperactive kids, with the pleasures of visiting the beach.

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LEAP OF FAITH

Standing on a small platform at the top of a 20 metre high pole in high winds last month I started to question my sanity. How was it, I wondered, that while my on-looking friends had their feet firmly on the ground, sipping their drinks from Starbucks, I was been encouraged to jump off said-platform and grab hold of a trapeze?

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TRAVELS WITH MY TEXT BOOKS

In the March issue of Real World we explored whether taking a gap year abroad in order to sidestep the economic downturn at home was a viable option.  Now we’ve been contacted by Kate Ross, who can tell us all about a break abroad as she is currently teaching English as a foreign language to pupils in Indonesia.  Here, in the first of her regular blogs from overseas, Kate tells us the highs and lows of her experiences so far.

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All the jobs I've never had - Foreign & Commonwealth Office

I can think of few jobs as prestigious as working for the Foreign Office. For example, I would love to drive around in a car with tinted windows and diplomatic number plates. However, my dreams of joining the Foreign Office fast-track scheme were short-lived.

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All the jobs I've never had - Accountant

There is something slightly menacing-sounding about the 'Big Four'. But that didn't put me off applying to one of the country's largest accountancy firms.

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All the jobs I've never had - Trainee solicitor

To this day I still don't know why, but at the age of eleven I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a solicitor when I grew up. The fact that I couldn't even spell the word solicitor, let alone know what they actually did, was irrelevant.

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All the jobs I've never had - Local government

Somewhere towards the end of my final year I started to get really panicky about not having a job. It seemed that everyone I spoke to had been super-organised and had already got a high-flying job lined-up.

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My Recruiter Hell Degree

Where was I? Ah yes, the old 2:1 minimum requirement, and why I propose we should scrap it.

Much as I hate to advocate something that would create extra work for me - as throwing open our application process to students with any degree class would surely do - I can't help thinking it would be better in the long run...

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My Recruiter Hell - Part 5

What is this ‘nous’ I keep banging on about? Well, the OED defines it as ‘common sense; practical intelligence’, while my faithful friend Wikipedia informs me that it is also a philosophical term that means intellect. Strange as this may seem, intellect is not what our student applicants lack; if anything, they suffer from a surfeit.

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My Recruiter Hell - Part 4

Even after I'd killed the student intern and disposed of the body, I was still feeling rather too irritated to deal with Sir Sick Note. I needed a little office hours relaxation - not something I indulge in with anything near the regularity of other employees, but desperate times and all that

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My recruiter hell - Part 3

When I was 11, I went for interview at several private schools. On one particular occasion, the headmistress handed me a stapler and a pack of staples.

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My recruiter hell - Part 2

Another week, another careers fair. Surprisingly, the over-eager students have not proved much of a headache – or at least, not as much of a headache as last year’s graduate entrants.

Although handpicked from all the 2006 graduate joiners to represent our shiny corporate brand, this gruesome twosome seem hell bent on destruction.

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My recruiter hell

Graduate recruiters wield an awful lot of power when it comes to getting you the job of the dreams. But what do they actually do, and why do some of them make your lives so difficult? We get an exclusive insight into the working life of a leading graduate recruiter.

While most of my friends spent their summer holidays partying in Portofino or hiking in the Himalayas, I had the great misfortune to be tasked with hand-holding 20 “green-around-the gills” students during our company’s annual summer internship.

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