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.

The capital’s hotel scene got an exciting injection of pace with the arrival of this pleasure palace. The urban outpost of Gleneagles, Scotland’s famous country house estate, is a cheeky reinvention of a Bank of Scotland branch office. Action centres around the Spence, the former vast banking hall whose extravagance of pink columns, intricate cornicing and showstopping cupola have been wrestled into a fabulous, informal, all-day meeting place. The 33 bedrooms are a kilt-meets-gilt ode to both their Lothian and Palladian roots. A nightcap at the spectacular rooftop bar should see you sleep through the trams rumbling by below on St Andrew Square. The Jelly Babies in the in-room pantries embody everything that is fabulous about a stay at the five-star Lime Wood hotel. The 19th-century estate near Lyndhurst in the New Forest might have vintage Aston Martins on the drive, a restaurant by Hartnett Holder & Co and suites and cottages with interiors from Susie Atkinson — but it’s also the kind of unpretentious place where scoffing a bag of children’s sweets wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. Opened in 2009, it was the first in a group of hotels that include the eight shabby-chic Pig properties. While all share a common ethos (elevated food, unobtrusive service and luxurious rooms in glorious countryside spots), Lime Wood remains the undisputed matriarch of the litter.Companies can now survey their employees through their online platform throughout the year, rather than just the once. Yes, we all know it starred in the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, but don’t typecast the Headland just yet — this Cornish grande dame on the outskirts of Newquay is so much more than its reputation as a spooky Victorian pile. It’s springing into the 21st century with upgrades to its bedrooms as well as a new multimillion-pound restaurant set to open in 2023. Throw in the fact that it’s still family-owned and on the doorstep of one of the country’s best surf beaches, and the Headland will surely put you under its spell. Sorry. The Coronavirus pandemic has also opened many opportunities for graduate employment. For example, the edition highlights the experiences of one Leeds graduate who worked alongside eight others at the Nightingale hospital in London. Another worked at a Coronavirus testing centre, through AstraZeneca.

There are 12 categories in total including a list of all organisations that have qualified. Four of these are based on the number of employees in your organisation: Small, Medium, Big and Very Big. The other categories are Best Places to Work for Women, Disabled Employees, Ethnic Minority Employees, LGBTQA+ Employees, 16-34 year olds, 55+ year olds and Best Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing. The platform is straightforward to use with five risk levels to choose from, plus you can opt to go down the ethical investment route. This is the part of the process where we can really add value by helping to draft an engaging and compelling written entry. There is no doubt that winning any industry award that impresses customers will also impress current and potential employees. However, is this enough? Most businesses believe it is and don’t enter separate awards to impress current and potential employees. However, if you really want to stand out to potential recruits and attract the best talent then you want awards which explicitly say “this is a great place to work”, or “we are a top employer, better than the other organisations you might consider working for.”

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Mandatory case study (1,000 words). This year the focus of the case study should be on gender equality and / or you responded to the increased challenges facing women in the context of COVID-19.

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.

Harvard tops the teaching pillar, while Oxford leads the research pillar. Atop the international pillar is the Macau University of Science and Technology. Confusingly, different platforms have different names for these charges, such as service fees or custody charges.