Accountancy career programmes

Both Deloittes and Ernest & Young refreshing students minds about their programmes and open days. See weblinks in careers section of blog to follow up on these and others in the same field.

Building Engineering Career

Opportunity in this field in the St albans office of AECOM. See weblink on Careers section of blog. This particular one looking for school leaver with 3 A levels of CCC or equivalent in three of: maths, physics, english, and languags.

Tesco Careers

Tesco advertising a specific post based in WGC for A level leaver. Need equivalent of 3 Cs at A level. Go to Tesco link on left of Blog for more. Also they have a large Commercial Development Programme, well worth looking at. Main area is in Merchandising. Plenty of great training offered from one of UK's biggest employers.

Manchester University Discovery Days

Further away than the London Taster Days but in same vein and there may still be places. They are offering days from end June to Mid July in: english, engineering, chemistry, biomedical science, nursing, midwifery, history and law. Well worth a look nad a book:

www.manchester.ac.uk/discoverdays

Computer Science Taster Day

At Oxford University. Need to be taking Maths A level and be achieving at the top end with it.

Thursday 14th June. More details via www.cs.ox.ac.uk/mailinglist/

Herts Youth Games Volunteers

Training (free) begins in April and event is on 8th July. Good experience for anyone keen to go in the direction of sport organisation.Contact Beth Tyler on 01727 827667 ext 228, if interested

New London University Taster Days

Royal Holloway, London running a modern languages day (French, German, Spanish, and/or Italian) on 15th June. Part of London Uni Taster Programme - book in the same way online.

Ancient History at UCL 28/3/12

Drama at Queen Mary, London - 4 different courses also 28/3/12

Music at Brunel also 28/3/12

and Studio Recording workshop on 27/6/12

Exam Resits in Year 12

It is important that all Year 12s planning to apply for university next academic year recognise that UCAS now insist that all applicants record all the grades of exams sat to date. This means that the universities you apply to will see all your AS grades as they stand this forthcoming summer. The implication is that a disappointing result in a January module needs to be wiped out by an improved resit result to allow university aspirations to stay on track. Do not leave any resits until Year 13 unless you have carefully considered this issue.