Education and Employers

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…

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…

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…

Education at a Glance 2018

…UK between education and employment – with graduates in the UK having among the lowest unemployment rates among OECD countries. The UK’s labour market still has “severe” penalties for those…

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…

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…

Fall in graduate vacancies sees 85 apply for each job

This summer’s university leavers face a tough jobs market, with a forecast of a 4% fall in graduate vacancies. The Association of Graduate Recruiters annual survey shows that leading UK…

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…