By Katie Allen. Higher Education Careers Services Unit says there was a fall in numbers of graduates working in retail, catering and bars. The jobs market for new graduates improved last year to bring the biggest drop in unemployment among university leavers for 15 years. More...

By Flora MacQueen. Not everyone can afford to do a full-time law degree or the GDL, but there are other options. The best route into law will almost always be the one that guarantees a job with as little debt as possible. More...

By The Guardian. The director of the Centre for Evaluation shares the must-have skills and lists courses for budding M&E professionals. In international development, everyone knows that good intentions are simply not enough. It is critical to agree on appropriate aims and then make sure that these can be achieved efficientlyIn addition to the alternatives your correspondents propose of moving jobs away from London and the south and redirecting infrastructure spending (Letters, 24 September), there is a third pressing problem: jobs and affordable housing within London are getting further apart. Low- and middle-income people are being forced out of central and inner London by a mixture of housing costs and eviction from social housing estates, while employment in many outer-London areas is declining because land can so much more profitably be switched to use for speculative housing from industrial, office and retail use. More...

By James Hargreaves. The director of the Centre for Evaluation shares the must-have skills and lists courses for budding M&E professionals. In international development, everyone knows that good intentions are simply not enough. It is critical to agree on appropriate aims and then make sure that these can be achieved efficiently. More...

By Anonymous academic. I’ve never felt so valued working in a post-1992 university, says our anonymous academic – fledgling academics are missing a world of opportunities in pursuing ideas of prestige. More...