The graduate jobs market is tough right now. An entrepreneurship expert explains how to go it alone

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The Conversation
☕🐦Ever feel like your degree didn’t quite fit—like a graduation cap slipping sideways? This flash fiction uses a robin and a tea bag to explore employability, empire, tourism, and why some subjects are dismissed.
https://alisonlittle.blog/2025/12/29/tea-ology/
#DegreeCourses #Graduates #Tea
This P.E.I. student debt grant could save graduates thousands, but fewer are applying
There’s been a significant drop in the number of students applying for and receiving money through a provincial grant program — one that could eliminate thousands of dollars in student debt.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-debt-reduction-grant-program-9.7117410?cmp=rss
Dalhousie inks new nursing degree agreement with university in India
Dalhousie announced on Saturday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding to create a dual-degree program in Chennai, India. Graduates will be able to practice in India and Nova Scotia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-dual-nursing-degree-india-9.7116335?cmp=rss

Red Pepper Boss Arinaitwe Rugyendo #Graduates with PhD
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Uganda

Was Kyagulanyi’s #Geneva Address a Sign of #Political
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Uganda

MPs Stunned as #Government Claims #Uganda’s Coffee Exports
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Uganda

#Uganda’s 14 Richest Individuals – February 2026 (Macroeconomic
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Uganda

#Ukraine uncovers $1 million embezzlement in major #Kyiv
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Ukraine

#Russia, #Ukraine, agree to 'local truce' at occupied
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Ukraine

Countries

Two student loan repayment changes considered by Treasury to tackle debt crisis

Ministers are looking at changing the interest rate or repayment threshold on student loans to defuse graduates’ growing…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #graduates #Labour #PoliticsExclusive #RachelReeves #studentdebt #studentloans #students #Treasury #tuitionfees #UK #UnitedKingdom #Universities
https://www.newsbeep.com/407667/

The Lib Dems have said they would forgive 20% of student debt for public sector workers; of course, one might quibble about the relatively low % but this is a move in the right directions but for two small issues:

Are we likely to see the LibDems in Govt.? Well perhaps in a coalition?

Can we trust then to deliver such a discount? Here we might look back to the last time they were in a coalition... oh hold on, didn't they betray those (now) graduates before?

#LibDems #graduates
h/t Observer

Countries

The true cost of the student loans debt scandal

Paying off a student loan is a Sisyphean challenge. I started university in 2016 and since then, my…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #graduates #SpecialReport #studentloan #studentloans #StudentLoansCompany #students #UK #UnitedKingdom #university
https://www.newsbeep.com/394704/

#MissKittyPolitics Because transparency is only possible with simplicity. By the time anybody #graduates high school or becomes 18, they MUST #know and #understand the #law. Since that is not realistic currently, it is the law's fault. It is WAY to fucking insanely obtuse. ON PURPOSE. Fuck that.