Career Inspiration: Newspaper Reporter
Journalism is a popular career and attracts a lot of graduates. Hotcourses spoke to Senior Reporter Rachel Dearden to find out what it takes… Name: Rachel Dearden Job description: Newspaper Reporter, Lancashire Evening Post (LEP) “I have always been interested in people and communities. Local news is a way to get under the skin of a community and find out about the lives and the stories of the people living in it. I did a BA (Hons) in English Studies at Sheffield Hallam followed by a PgDip in Newspaper Journalism at Liverpool Community College. ...

Tips and Traps for the First year
We at Hotcourses have our fair share of university experiences between us, so here are some things we wish we’d read before we started the first year of University First year work ethic Being a student requires more careful time management than at school – as well as having lectures scattered all over your timetable, you will be expected to spend a lot of study hours reading and doing assignments, and you will have to organise all this yourself. Whilst this can seem like an annoying distraction from the important first year business of making friends and generally having a good time, it’ll...