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You should also be able to invest in funds and investment trusts, though you’ll need to watch out for the charges that can be attached to these accounts. North Yorkshire is one of England’s gastronomic hotspots right now, and the Angel is its most divine experience. Your amuse bouche should be a walk to the gritty spine of Rylstone Edge, which bludgeons through the velvet-green Dales around Hetton. Then follow nature with nurture. Owners Michael and Johanna Wignall have created a minimalist, moss-lined altar to haute cuisine in the shell of this 15th-century inn, celebrating their local larder with a dash of Asian delicacy. Close by, 15 rooms extend from traditional cottages to super-sleek suites. And remember to cash in a babysitting coupon with the grandparents; cooking this good is wasted on kids.
Apologies to the medieval poet John Lydgate, but we’ve found an exception to his wise old adage. We think you can please all the people all the time, but concede that this fabulous Regency pile near Newbury, once the family home of Percy Bysshe Shelley, has opened 600 years too late to prove it to the pragmatic priest. The Retreat is exactly what these times demand: affordable and fun. Kids can go wild in the pool and parklands, then slump in the TV salon. Couples can take e-motorbikes for forays to Highclere Castle for a Downton Abbey fix, try gym classes, play tennis, recover in the spa and spruce up at its hair studio. Foodies have nature walks to local vineyards and fancy Japanese fare, while families can flop in the brasserie. Downstairs is a generous splosh of stylish spaces, topped by 55 jauntily textured bedrooms, some with free-standing baths, others with plump beds for Rover. And it’s blissfully unstuffy, so breakfast includes a build-your-own bacon sarnie station.Additionally, graduate recruitment is forecast to fall in seven industries. Most notably, the 'Big Four’ accounting and professional service firms, several major banks and financial institutions, and a number of high street retailers, are predicting the largest reduction in graduate jobs over the next year. Alice Hawthorn was a racehorse that galloped to glory more than 50 times in the 1840s. These days, put your money on her namesake, an 18th-century inn in Nun Monkton which was first past the post in our 2021 hotel awards, taking the title of best bolt hole in the north of England. On arrival you will nod to cows grazing on one of the UK’s oldest working greens — despite being just a 30-minute drive from York city centre. Before you know it, you’ll be ensconced in the airy, grade II listed inn, munching your way through superior pub grub. Then it’s a choice between cosy rooms upstairs or Scandi-cool garden suites, all glass fronts, fur throws and Douglas fir exteriors. Link: The Sunday Times Awards or read our dedicated guide to these awards https://awards-list.co.uk/the-sunday-times-best-places-to-work-powered-by-workl/
The tenth outpost in the mini-chain of Coppa Clubs, the Georgian has been welcomed with open arms by Haslemere locals. And it’s no surprise; the dining menu here is well executed and as varied as the choice of spots to eat: booths, snugs, dining rooms, terrace and garden. The locals have less call for the bedrooms, which offer a soothing retreat with bags of space and views over, in one direction, the lively dining garden, or in the other, Haslemere’s attractive main street lined with gift shops, cafés and boutiques (and an estate agent called Clarke Gammon). The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in second place, but the University of Cambridge jumps from joint fifth last year to joint third. This once-neglected Braemar coaching inn reopened in 2018 after a four-year makeover that earned it our Hotel of the Year title in 2019. The new owners are Iwan and Manuela Wirth (of Somerset’s Hauser & Wirth gallery), and it was the art they installed that first hit the headlines, with a Lucian Freud casually hanging by reception and a Picasso watching over guests in the lounge. Since opening, the hotel has added a whisky bar, guided activities and an annual literary festival that was headed up in 2022 by Ian Rankin and Sebastian Faulks. It’s the place to stay on Royal Deeside.
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Wealthify, which is owned by Aviva, charges an annual management fee of 0.6%. Its original portfolio costs an average 0.16% on top of this, while its ethical portfolio costs an extra 0.7%. This is the part of the process where we can really add value by helping to draft an engaging and compelling written entry. Overall, amidst an irrefutably difficult period for the country in most sectors, there can still be significant optimism amongst graduates looking for employment. In the current climate, it would be understandable for graduates to expect a huge drop in employment opportunities post university. 1/5 thof employers have stopped making job offers for vacancies in the Autumn of 2020, whilst 2/5ths have warned that ‘they are likely to recruit fewer university leavers over the next twelve months.’ There’s a touch of Withnail & I about this brilliantly rebooted 16th-century inn in Shipton-under-Wychwood, near Burford and Bourton-on-the-Water. The racing-green tongue and groove walls, topped by a mishmash of quirky monochrome photography and mounted butterflies and flying insects, lend it an air of dashing respectability — but a frisson of dissolute intention hangs over the bar. It’s a proper boozer, so beer is served in dimpled glasses and the dining is fun, with refined and retro dishes such as venison bourguignon. The ten rooms are briskly boutique.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table reveals how the global higher education landscape is shifting. The awards will recognise and celebrate organisations with the highest employee engagement and wellbeing levels which will in turn help winners of the awards attract, retain and recruit employees.Just a jiffy from Britain’s second city, Hampton Manor in leafy Arden has always focused on foodies — so the imminent closure of its Michelin-starred restaurant, Peel’s, is a surprise. Never fear, however: the hotel now offers an “immersive” new restaurant-with-rooms experience squirrelled in the grounds, and it’s yummy. Grace & Savour has five chic little suites, each with tactile trimmings by artisan weavers and woodturners and a DIY “bathtime ritual” to enjoy in your bedside tub-for-two. The star, however, is the baby-faced chef David Taylor, who tours you around the manor’s restored Victorian vegetable garden then treats you to 15 intricate saucers of deliciousness, each sourced from sustainable producers across the UK. This year’s ranking analysed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally. Overall, we collected over 680,000 datapoints from more than 2,500 institutions that submitted data. As with previous years, the process involves a thorough survey and a huge written entry. This written entry can be completed and updated across the entire year. There are now four chances to be in the 100 best companies to work for across the year. These lists are split into quarters (see dates below). The winners are announced at the end of each quarter with the final list being announced in November. It’s hard to find a proper boozer these days, but somehow the young team behind this 200-year-old Zeals coaching inn understand good old-fashioned hospitality better than their elders. They haven’t tinkered too much with the time-honoured formula of flagstone floors, hop-strewn beams, upturned barrels as tables, blazing fires and local beers. But they’ve updated the tempo by introducing a bold colour scheme, bolder art, pub classics on the menu and adding six boutique bedrooms. Best of all, the staff bring generosity, enthusiasm and a sense of humour to work, so a stay easily becomes a feelgood experience.
Another Place has been a breath of fresh air since it opened in 2017. Sister hotel to Watergate Bay in Cornwall, it brought a wetsuit state of mind to Ullswater and, in the process, weatherproofed Lake District holidays. This year, it has doubled down on its outdoor focus by adding a water-sports hub with changing rooms, as well as a glasshouse pizza restaurant and yoga studio in the garden. A treehouse and six shepherd’s huts complete the upgrade. Don’t worry: the food’s good too, and a classy indoor pool awaits in case of downpours. But to really enjoy your stay you need to step outside. Copy editors: Helen Eisenbach, Mark Hokoda, Anny Kim, Silvija Ozols, Sarah Rutledge, and Jennifer Schiavone Companies can now survey their employees through their online platform throughout the year, rather than just the once. Even ready-made portfolios can be difficult to compare in terms of performance because investment platforms have a selection of risk levels investors can choose from.
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