A university degree does not a good workie make

July 8 2005

European employers think that university does not prepare students for the workplace, recent research by the European Framework for Work Experience has shown.
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Stead-fastly getting poor

W.T. Stead was a newspaper juggernaut of the Victorian age.
But like most fresh-faced journalists, he started out working for nothing. More than two hundred years on, Mediamug asks figures across journalism if it's ever right to write for nothing.
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Hack Hell: do we really need more journalism graduates?

The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2005, or High Fliers survey, shows that this year both journalism and teaching are tied for the most popular professional destinations for university leavers.
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Audio: Chair of the NUJ's Ethics Council Chris Frost suggests if young journalists keep writing for nothing, journalism risks becoming an all-white profession.

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How does a journalism graduate break into the industry? Mediamug follows one to find out.