The number of university students working to help fund their studies has risen sharply, a survey has found. About 77% of students work, up from 59% last year, the study of 4,642 students by insurance firm Endsleigh and the National Union of Students suggested. It found that students earned an average of £412 a month, with women earning 36% less than men. Most said they worked part-time, but 14% said they held down full-time jobs during term-time, holidays or both. More than
According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), younger workers struggling to find jobs after the financial crisis risk a lifetime trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder unless governments move swiftly to improve their skills and boost investment. The Paris-based organisation said the global jobs recovery was slowly gathering pace, but long-term unemployment remained a headache for many countries, especially in Europe. More than one in three jobseekers in the 34 OECD countries have been out of
If you thought a job in market research meant spending all day in a call centre working through a list numbers in the phone directory, you might be surprised to learn that there is a lot more to it than cold calling. So what do market researchers actually do? They collect data about specific markets for clients; data about what people like, dislike, want and don’t want – even how people behave. They often have an area of specialism, so they
George Osborne’s budget has made a bad situation worse for the nation’s young people – unless, that is, they are poised to inherit their grandparents’ £1m home and will benefit from a higher inheritance tax threshold. Without access to this tax break, they are sliding backwards. Tax credits Young families on low incomes are expected to be among the worst affected by changes to universal credit that will deduct benefits faster as they earn more. It will cost 3m families an average
The prospects for young Britons have deteriorated sharply since the Tories entered government in 2010 as money and resources have been targeted at the older generation, according to a devastating new report by economists. The latest findings of the Intergenerational Foundation, highlight a sharply widening gap on its “fairness index” between people under 30 and those over 60. The report illustrates how the younger generation is increasingly paying the price for supporting those already in, or approaching, older age as the cost
