Signs of Hope: How the U.K. Helps College Students Get to Work | A Positive Story
Signs of Hope: How the U.K. Helps College Students Get to Work | A Positive Story Why this story matters: In a time when pessimism is easy, this story provides a grounded reason for optimism. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to college, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. MACCLESFIELD, England — Ishan Goshawk, an apprentice with global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, donned a lab coat and safety glasses, and entered a room filled with robots. His first stop was a machine programmed to fill dozens of tiny vials with a compound he needed for an experiment. Everything seemed in order, so Goshawk went to check on a second robot, a gleaming apparatus that, he noted, cost half a million pounds (about $620,000). When the first robot finished filling the vials, Goshawk would bring them here, to test how efficiently drug compounds can be purified using different solvents. Would you like to read more good news …