Top 100 graduate employers: Civil Service

An accelerated training and development programme is looking for about 500 graduates with the potential to become leaders

Graduate Watch:

Top 100 graduate employers: Credit Suisse

The bank is likely to offer 150 positions to graduates in fields including equities, investment banking and operations

Would you like some enterprise with that?

Postgraduate courses that teach students how to be entrepreneurs are in demand

Fast track to success

The Olympic Games could give your career a head start

Finding the money

A new funding database for masters is in the works

Sports masters are fit for purpose

Sports medicine is vital for ensuring athletes perform at their peak

The man with a £10m tongue

Coffee taster Gennaro Pellicia on his work

Applying science to food

Pesticides are a safety priority for the Food Standards Agency

The joys of curating

Colin McEwan, head of the British Museum’s Americas section, on bringing Aztec rulers to life

Exhibit your talents

Bring the past alive with a career in museums

Celebrity chefs add spice to culinary courses

There is plenty of fine food and wine on the masters menu

New recipe for a food expert

The subject of what we eat and its wider consequences demands an all-round professional

Brown accused over one in five young out of work

Heated exchanges in the Commons as it emerges that youth unemployment is now at an unprecedented level

The lost generation of graduates

Some 300,000 new graduates entered the market this summer and thousands of them are still jobless

Boot camp for the wannabe consultants

With so many graduates flooding the job market, it is getting ever tougher for employers to find the best

The 100: Bill Gates, the sound of sincerity

In a series on great orators linked to a new book, we see how substance and belief can triumph over style