Education and Employers

This year’s graduates better job prospects

This summer’s graduates will have the best job prospects since the economic crisis began, according to research. A survey of the country’s 100 top graduate recruiters by High Fliers Research…

Engineering graduates in non skilled jobs

Nearly a quarter of UK engineering graduates are working in non-graduate jobs or unskilled work such as waiting on tables and shop work, research from Birmingham University suggests. Read the…

Graduate internship scheme closed

During last year the Graduate Internship Scheme paid for 8,500 graduates to be matched with small businesses, and a quarter of those were offered full-time jobs at the end of…

Work experience ‘key to job hunt’ for graduates

Job-hunting graduates need work experience to stand a chance of getting a job with many employers, a recruitment survey says. The High Fliers’ graduate jobs survey was based on 100…

The impact of undergraduate degrees on early-career earnings

…Educational Outcomes (LEO) administrative dataset to provide an estimate of the impact of Higher Education (HE) on the earnings of graduates at age 29 and those that did not attend…

Solving future skills challenges

…are creating rising demand for those with qualifications above Level 4 (HNC/Ds, foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees). This report looks at the rapid pace of change and increasing complexity of…

Book Review: Our Kids by Robert Putnam

Book Review: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam, New York: Simon & Schuster By Rachael McKeown Robert Putnam is a world renowned social scientist, famously…

Why some kids are more likely to follow their dreams….

…people form their science and career aspirations between the ages of 10 and 14. Our recent book, Understanding Young People’s Science Aspirations, draws together and reflects on findings from research…

Supporting young people and schools virtually during Covid 19

…sessions focusing on particular sectors, pathways (e.g. apprenticeships) or geographical areas. To book in for a session click here To book in for a session click on the links provided…

Building a Better “Pathways to Careers” System in the US

This seminar focused on the ‘Pathways to Careers’ programme in the US and related it to the situation in the UK. Abstract: This informal talk focused on the dilemmas and…