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Guardian reported that “universities are producing too many graduates, leaving more than a million people in jobs for which they are over-qualified, according to research by employers” a few days ago.
It’s a very interesting report. It started off by telling us that there won’t be enough jobs for over-qualified graduates, but moved on to the discussion of the lack of graduates quality at a sudden.
Many graduates left university with inadequate communication and language abilities or even the ability to “get up in the morning”
Yes, I do agree. At least, I am struggling to get up at 7am every morning. I would think that the fixed working hour forced myself to have a pleasant timetable everyday and I could get quite a lot of things done in the morning. On the other hand, I am worried that it might kill my creativity, because I do feel that I am kind of managed by such a rigid society rule. I would not be able to make the best use of my time when necessary. I might just start to follow what it requires me to do, instead of aim to change the society as I dreamed to do so in school. For me, it takes several years to get rid of the big label “graduates” and then possibly I can ask for or lead a change in my small community. By that time, maybe I would have already forgoten my dream and started to criticise the typical students’ behaviour. I hope this won’t happen to me.
What I can confirmed now is that I have alredy forgotten my dream in my childhood. I can only remember that I have told myself that I would never try to behaviour like an adult when I am a grown-up. I should always take care of childrend from their point of view when I am a grown-up. I cannot remember what kind of adult behaviour I was refering to when I was small. I was trying to recall all these on my train journey to work today, but I just couldn’t remember any. What a shame!
On today’s Guardian, Anthea Lipsett reported that BA’s new report claimed the universities should consider increasing the number of interdisciplinary centres focused on public policy and promoting academics in this research area. Humanities and the social scociences have not be able to put a sufficient influence on public policy-making. The report, from a working group chaired by Professor Sir Alan Wilson, has made 20 recommendations to boost the impact of humanities and social sciences research and to build links between academics and government.
“Gmail’s good, but it could be better.”
This extension improves Gmail in quite a few ways – like adding saved searches, attachment icons, label colors, keyboard macros, a filter assistant and right-click conversation previews. Good news is that they updated the extension to work with the current interface of Gmail in 8 November.
I got to know this CNET TV website from A’s blog. He gave highly praise to it as “one of the things that inspired me to actually wake up in the morning for around the last year or so has been CNET TV”. I quite enjoyed watching it – strong recommend. It broadcasts various up to date funny reviews of technology. If you are interested in cute and funny gadgets, have a go: http://www.cnettv.com/
