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The Coca-Cola Happiness Machine strikes again!

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:23:31 +0000

Coca-Cola is unleashing happiness again, this time in the UK! The new film – the much-anticipated sequel to the global internet sensation which caught the world’s imagination earlier this year – sees the Coca-Cola Happiness Machine arrive in the UK, bringing a touch of Coca-Cola magic to some unsuspecting British students.

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Jobguides newly added

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:50:43 +0000

With the bank holiday on Monday only a few guides were prepared or amended over the last week (30 August to 3 September) and here they are:

The most visited job guides include the ones for a Dog Handler, a Sports Therapist, a PC Games Designer and a Driving Examiner.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

Job Guides Recently Added

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:55:27 +0000

Here’s a list of all the job-guides that were added or amended over the course of this last week (23rd – 27th):

The most searched for job-guides at the moment are for a Computer Games Designer a Make-up Artist and an Estate Agent.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

‘Orianthi – According To You’

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:57:54 +0000

Best known as Michael Jackson’s guitarist in ‘This Is It’, Orianthi’s debut single ‘According To You’ is out 5 September.

To find out more about Orianthi & your chance to win a signed PRS guitar head over to her Facebook page now.

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New job guides added this week

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:26:28 +0000

It’s been a while since the last job guides report was posted, as other posts have taken precedence.

So here’s the first new weekly report for August 2010. This is a list of the job-guides that were added or amended over the course of this last week (16th – 20th):

The most searched for job-guides at the moment are for an Estate Agent, a Computer Games Designer and a Driving Examiner.

Chris, Web Designer at Input Youth

Adult drinking sparks child calls

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:19:43 +0000

More than 100 children a week are contacting the ChildLine helpline with worries about their parents’ drinking or drug use, according to the NSPCC.

It said in the year to March, 5,700 children had called, but founder Esther Rantzen told the BBC there were likely to be many more too afraid to do so.

Two-thirds of those callers had mentioned their parents’ drinking.

The children calling about that issue were also more likely than other child callers to report abuse, it added.

Ms Rantzen said: “These are the children that know our number and ring us, but what about the many, many thousands of children who aren’t, alas, familiar with ChildLine’s work and who might be fearful of ringing us?”

She added: “I am, in a sense, imploring those people who work with children to be alert to the possibility that the silent, friendless child… may have trouble at home created by alcohol and drug problems.”

Source: BBC Family News

Student cash giveaway announcement

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:26:05 +0000

Lewis and Jenson announce Santander’s student cash giveaway. For the second year Santander is promoting its student account by giving away £50 every hour, of every day for 30days!

Portsmouth student became a bus driver to fund university courses

UK jobs market recovery ‘to stall’

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:25:20 +0000

Recovery in the jobs market will “stall” this year as demand for workers in the public sector falls, new research has warned.

According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a third of employers expect to cut jobs in the next three months.

The public sector employers in particular are planning cuts, with 36% of them looking to lose staff.

The size of the cuts being considered has also increased, the CIPD said.

Across all sectors employers are expecting to make an average of 5.5% of their workforces redundant, the survey of 600 companies suggests, up from the 3.6% average cut being considered three months ago.

Despite the threat of cuts, the CIPD’s net employment index, which measures the number of companies planning to hire against the number planning to lose staff, is still in positive territory at +two, down from +five three months ago. But the difference between the public and private sectors is stark. For the private sector alone, the index shows strong hiring intentions at +19 while in the public sector, the index gives a reading of -35.

Too much TV for toddlers can cause long-term harm

Lack of action’ over abuse fears

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:46:00 +0000

A council has been criticised for its failure to investigate suspicions that two children were being abused by their father.

The public services ombudsman for Wales, Peter Tyndall, said Merthyr Tydfil council’s lack of action meant police did not look into the case. He also said that the authority did not give enough support to the children’s grandparents after they took them in.

The council said it had addressed the issues raised.

Mr Tyndall said concerns were raised that the children – called B and C in his report – were being abused by their father, who had two previous convictions for sex offences against teenage girls. However he said there were “serious shortcomings” because the council did not initiate statutory child protection procedures.

Source: BBC Family News

Portsmouth student became a bus driver to fund university courses

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:04:34 +0000

A student has told how she became a bus driver to pay her way through university.

Louisa Burton would drive students home from pubs and clubs in her night job in order to cover her tuition fees and living costs.

The 22-year-old is set to graduate from Portsmouth University on Wednesday (21/07) after completing her studies in accounting and business.

Miss Burton, of Inverness, began driving buses when she was 18.

She started driving as a summer job after spotting an advert after finishing school and became one of the youngest bus drivers in Scotland.

“I really enjoyed the bus driving and decided that it’d be silly not to continue with it once I’d started university,” she said.

Miss Burton travelled to Hampshire two weeks before her course was due to start so she could learn the local bus routes.

She worked five shifts a week including two “Guildhall shifts”, where she worked from midnight until 0400 BST collecting fellow students from local pubs and nightclubs.

Miss Burton now works as a trainee accountant in Inverness and is not planning to continue her career as a bus driver.

Source: BBC Family News

Ministers back the idea of national civic service from age seven