As an idea, work placements are fantastic – building up professional experience, stepping out into the industry, making contacts and generally working for real, instead of practising sounds great. Yet, the reality reminds you that […]

As an idea, work placements are fantastic – building up professional experience, stepping out into the industry, making contacts and generally working for real, instead of practising sounds great. Yet, the reality reminds you that […]
Lecturers. Instead of wrongly looking at them as cold superiors trying to run away as soon as they hit the last slide, try putting yourself in their shoes.
YOLO – You Only Live Once has been used an excuse to do silly things and it’s usually taken as the worst interpretation of the Latin Carpe Diem. However, it’s still true and valuable when you think about what you’re going to do to support yourself for the rest of your life.
Dr Simon Hardy is the Course Leader for Media & Cultural Studies. He teaches War, Democracy, and the Media, a topic which is both passion and practice.
Claire Wolfe is the Subject Leader in Journalism at the University of Worcester. She was my Independent Study tutor, so I’ve decided to interview her for this blog post.
The first part will include a couple of words about the course, while the second is a Proust personal profile.
This is post to follow up on the entry called Gap year- friend or foe. Enjoy it!
Alison Marsh, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, spills the beans on her gap year experience in Australia.