Figures hid true graduate jobs picture
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Official figures exaggerate graduate employment prospects in some the most popular subjects in higher education in the United Kingdom by failing to distinguish between graduate jobs - jobs requiring a graduate qualification - and non-graduate jobs, according to an analysis of graduate destinations revealed in The Times Good University Guide. The survey revealed that degrees leading to professions and other elite occupations, such as medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry, had almost 100% graduate employment rates, but other subjects had much higher rates of graduates in non-graduate type jobs - with American studies having the highest proportion with 34%.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Too many graduates? The market disagrees
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Issues relating to the increasing supply of graduates entering the workforce in the UK are examined. It is argued that there is little evidence that there is an oversupply of graduates in the UK labour market and that they are taking jobs that would traditionally have been taken by non-graduates. Instead, the definition of what are graduate jobs has changed and there has been growth in a number of new graduate occupations, mainly in the caring, technical and administrative sectors.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Top ten favourites retain poll positions
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An examination of the altered picture of graduate employment prospects that has emerged from an analysis of five years' worth of graduate employment data. The top 10 subjects for positive destinations in employment include architecture, dentistry, education, medicine nursing, veterinary science, law and civil engineering, while amongst the bottom 10 subject are sociology, anthropology, psychology, Italian, Russian and American studies.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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