Problems in Valuing Graduate Careers

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HESA’s DLHE survey has been capturing the ‘first destination’ of leavers from UK HEIs six months or more on from completing studies. It has now implemented its additional longitudinal study, contacting leavers three years further on (“Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Longitudinal Survey - Key Findings Report Published 2007”, http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/content/view/112/154/). There are questions about the value of expending resources upon a further survey. However, the limitations of the existing available data are that many graduates are not settled into a career path at this point. This paper reports findings of a questionnaire survey of ‘negative destination’ graduates (i.e. those with a known first destination either unemployed or in sub-graduate-level employment) from a Russell Group institution, with a view to determining career histories and to answer the question how long does it take them to attain graduate level activity status. This shows value in DLHE condu

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