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A new report has drilled down into how much graduates from particular courses earn. What does it mean for universities?
Young people are pressured into university and many end up in unsuitable courses. We need to recognise these realities and be clear about the purpose of higher education so it doesn’t lose its value.
University graduates have the power to enable dignified lives for others in a society. What skills and qualities do they need for this to happen?
Some big employers are changing their entry criteria – and grades are less and less important.
Of the 15,000 newly graduated teachers, less than half will find permanent employment in Australia. Now’s the time to decide if you stay on to do casual teaching or work abroad.
2013 was the year of Gonski; 2014 the year of higher education reform; 2015 has been the year of … hmmm … wait, what actually happened this year? Just a lot of chat really, with much debate, but little…
It depends on what you mean by ‘graduates’.
University protests in South Africa have showed that the countries students are hungry for real change. This desire can be harnessed to create a generation of “citizen scholars”.
With unaffordable housing and a scarcity of jobs, it’s no wonder that young people are giving London a miss.
A PhD and startup have more in common than you might think, and they complement each other in many ways. Nicky Ringland shares her experience of how one influenced the other.
If robots will take traditional graduate jobs, universities should be training students in borderless leadership skills.
If we want the Sustainable Development Goals to be more than just big dreams, Africa will need well trained engineers who can put their skills to good use in their own communities.
A lifetime of study and preparation are no guarantee of success for PhDs when they hit the job market. Things can and should be improved.
Even when women and minorities earn STEM degrees, they don’t take the next step into gainful employment at the same rates as white men.
The STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics supposedly suffer from a shortage of graduates. Conventional wisdom says there’s no one for employers to hire for science and engineering…
The number of professional and middle-class managerial jobs has shrunk, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford University. This is bad news for Britain’s graduates and represents a worrying…
University is often seen as a route to social mobility, providing the chance for all students to get higher status and better paid jobs no matter what kind of school they went to. But in our new research…
The gender pay gap between women and men graduates has long been an indicator of pay disparities later along the career path. New data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency has shown there…
American high school students are taking longer to graduate, according to a new study. The Rutgers study identified an increasing…
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Faculty Director of Social Entrepreneurship, Founding Director of the Social Impact Lab, University of Southampton
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Emeritus Professor, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield
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