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	<title>Campus Ali</title>
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	<description>a journey for me and my tent</description>
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		<title>University applicants turn attention abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The results are in. Despite the record numbers of As achieved and the introduction of the A*, A-level students battled clearing for a university place. This year, 674,339 students applied for university, a massive 63,000 more than last year. Unfortunately for many though university life has had to be put on hold as places dried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/03/university-applicants-turn-attention-abroad/</link>
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		<title>Gap year = Life Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi I’m Charlotte and with my gap year winding to an end, I am taking work experience at Stafford Long for the next couple of weeks! I thought I would tell you a bit about what I’ve been doing with my year away from full-time education.
 
Though my gap year wasn’t exactly my choice (I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/08/16/gap-year-life-experience/</link>
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		<title>AAA but no uni to go to!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A-level grades are expected to be even better this year with the proportion of A grades expected to beat last year’s total of 26.7%. Over the past few years universities have found it increasingly difficult to select the best students because of the numbers achieveing the top grade. Because of this, an A* grade is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/08/10/aaa-but-no-uni-to-go-to/</link>
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		<title>The truth behind graduate statistics</title>
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With all the current scaremongering from newspapers, it’s hard to see through the fog of graduate employment statistics. Is it really as bad as we’re told? Do we invest over £20k to end up working on the tills in Tesco or is it just as easy to get a job today as it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/08/02/the-truth-behind-graduate-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Fresh Look 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening saw 105 female students arrive at the very glamorous offices of Deutsche Bank wondering and eager to learn what a career in investment banking might be like - thanks to our Fresh Look event! With 9 of the world’s best investment banks attending it was an amazing opportunity for all the girls involved. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/22/fresh-look-2010/</link>
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		<title>Troubling times for those with a 2:2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the celebrations of graduating are in full swing, many graduates fear the employment market ahead. A recent survey has revealed that the graduate job market is more competitive than ever with vacancies down by 7% and 69 graduates chasing each graduate job. Those lucky enough to secure a job are likely to have at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/15/troubling-times-for-those-with-a-22/</link>
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		<title>GCSEs, A-levels &amp; Life Decisions!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I’m Olivia and I am doing work experience with Stafford Long, having just finishing my GCSEs. I have recently chosen my A-Level subjects – Art, Psychology, Biology and Geography and am hoping to go to university in 2 years time; however I do not know what I wish to study. 
 
After just relieving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/08/gcses-a-levels-life-decisions/</link>
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		<title>This Ability: Inside Investment Banking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scope’s ‘This Ability: Inside Investment Banking’ event is set to be an insightful experience for students who consider themselves to have a disability and who are looking to work in investment banking. Watch out for it this November! 
 
For more info visit: 
www.scope.org.uk/news/whats-on/information-days/thisability
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		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/02/this-ability-inside-investment-banking/</link>
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		<title>2010 sees graduate recruitment making a come back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High Fliers Research recently released their annual review on the 2010 graduate market with a particular focus on graduate vacancies as the economy improves. They revealed that as the recession hit, graduate vacancies dropped by 17.8% in 2009, 23.3% less than that in 2007. Such cuts were particularly evident in investment banks, IT and telecoms, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/02/2010-sees-graduate-recruitment-making-a-come-back/</link>
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		<title>Work experience does wonders</title>
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Too many young people are working for free in certain sectors, according to The Institute for Public Policy Research.
 
In order to gain much needed experience, to land the best jobs, students have to do real work for free at many businesses across the country. According to the TUC, a third of those on work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://campusali.co.uk/index.php/2010/06/18/work-experience-does-wonders/</link>
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