Education and Employers

Book Review: Our Kids by Robert Putnam

…resource of value to individuals and to society and argued both that it had diminished in the United States over preceding decades and that communities could act to achieve societal…

Supporting young people and schools virtually during Covid 19

…after the activity and feedback will be collected to measure the impact of these activities. What’s My Line This will be a 30-minute interactive session, where children will ask questions…

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

…of a 4% fall in graduate vacancies. The Association of Graduate Recruiters annual survey shows that leading UK employers are receiving 85 applications for each job. Read the full story….

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

…were created, yet there were only 316,690 first-degree UK-based graduates, leaving a recruitment gap of 123,310, more than double the gap in 2015. Nearly 50% of the subject knowledge acquired…