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.

As your car sweeps up the drive, the River Skell pounds by on one side and Pride and Prejudice-worthy gardens appear on the other. Impressive — but still outshone by the heart-stopping perfection of this Palladian mansion outside Ripon. You could gain some serious weight here. There are brasserie bites at Fletchers, afternoon tea in the Main Hall and dinner at its Michelin-starred Shaun Rankin restaurant, glammed-up Asian restaurant EightyEight, or alpine-inspired Après at the Orchard. Fortunately, Grantley also has one of the UK’s best-equipped gyms to work off excess baggage as well as a sparkling spa and 47 restful rooms. Companies can now survey their employees through their online platform throughout the year, rather than just the once. The US is the most-represented country overall, with 177 institutions, and also the most represented in the top 200 (58).Overall, amidst an irrefutably difficult period for the country in most sectors, there can still be significant optimism amongst graduates looking for employment. 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. If you’re in the mood for sand dunes, salty air and quaint villages, then you can’t go wrong with the Globe, a gastropub with rooms overlooking a leafy Georgian square in Wells-next-the-Sea, the bunting-festooned unofficial capital of the north Norfolk coast. In the warmer months, this is a shrine to the Great British summer, as guests sip chilled pints in the parasol-shaded courtyard terrace within sniffing distance of the sea. Its refurbished rooms are now awash with the colours of the coast, and its restaurant menu serves up the magic of East Anglia on a silver platter — seafood fans, this one’s for you. 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.

For many years known as The Times Top 50 Employers for Women, these awards are run by Business in the Community (BITC), a not-for-profit organisation founded by King Charles, a fact which adds to the credibility of this popular scheme. There is no survey for this list but there is a comprehensive entry form that needs to be completed (this is where we can help). The form consists of three parts: For many years now this has been the best recognised scheme, especially because of the association with The Sunday Times. However, please note that this year Best Companies has parted ways with the publication and the award is now simply known as The UK’s Best Companies to Work For. The owners are not just a match made in hospitality heaven, but motivated by the best intention: community spirit. He is Tim Bevan, executive film producer of rom-coms including Notting Hill. She is Amy Gadney, a contemporary artist. They snapped up this pub in their home village of Ramsden two years ago to save it from Spoons-style homogeneity. Their refurbishment has produced interiors as effortlessly alluring as Julia Roberts and as pretty as the pictures in their revolving art exhibitions. The kitchen’s elevated pub grub includes bavette steak and rooms come with four poster beds and roll-top baths. Sir Edmund Loder was an aristocratic plant hunter who transformed the 240 acres at his home near Horsham into a grade I listed woodland garden, with an interesting workforce: a mob of wallabies he kept as living lawnmowers. Following a major renovation in 2019, the gardens are once again a magnet for green-fingered tourists. Now Loder’s 19th-century Italianate mansion has been rebooted as a ten-bedroom hideaway with a Michelin-starred restaurant that takes its culinary cues from the gardens, with dishes that feature birch syrup and oak-tree vinegar. Once the public have left, those romantic gardens are just for loved-up guests — and the wallabies. 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%.

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With the graduate job market now recovering from the pandemic, the employers featured in the new edition of the Top 100 have over 24,000 graduate vacancies available for 2024. 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 Times Top 100 Graduate Employers is the definitive annual guide to Britain’s most sought-after and prestigious graduate employers. This cluster of barns and outbuildings, reimagined as a 31-room country-house hotel in 150 acres of working ethical farm outside Lechlade, is the definition of eco-chic sustainability. From its botanically themed bedrooms and seasonal-dining cookery to its flower-powered spa and spring-fed swimming pool, it provides such a persuasive argument for organic principles that even determined climate deniers will have their heads turned. To ensure its tasteful interiors remain tranquil, it is an adults-only playground. If you’re in your partner’s bad books, a day in the Botanical Bothy spa within a spa, followed by a slap-up dinner, guarantees a resumption of domestic bliss. Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table reveals how the global higher education landscape is shifting.

Mainland China now has the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 (11, compared with 10 last year), having overtaken Australia, which has dropped to fifth (joint with the Netherlands).If you need a helping hand setting up the ISA, choosing the investments and deciding how much to pay in, Kellands* is offering all of our readers a free hour-long session* with one of its independent financial advisers. They can get a good idea of your financial goals, and help you take the first step to achieving them. What are the fees on an ISA? Overall, 1,799 universities are ranked. A further 546 universities are listed with “reporter” status, meaning that they provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank, and agreed to be displayed as a reporter in the final table.

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If you are fairly new to investing or are not confident at making your own investment decisions, go for a ready-made portfolio. Copy editors: Helen Eisenbach, Mark Hokoda, Anny Kim, Silvija Ozols, Sarah Rutledge, and Jennifer Schiavone The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.