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Department for Education figures also show that UK course with highest average salary after five years pays seven times more than the course with the lowest

The proportion of non-EU graduates of UK universities who said their current activity was not meaningful has doubled in recent years

Chinese leader calls for greater alignment of degree programmes with the country’s workplace needs

Initiative aims to bridge the gap as education seen as ‘not solving’ Africa’s employment issues

Rejecting Ed Balls-authored study, new analysis says graduate premium outside London has held up despite soaring student numbers

Economy is failing to create enough professional jobs for fresh graduates, leaving young voters feeling frustrated

Young people experiencing increasingly turbulent starts to their working lives, study finds

With 3,000 graduate students picketing for higher pay, Boston University dean encourages faculty to ‘think creatively’ about using technological alternatives

Heilbronn Institute director Catherine Hobbs warns that graduates of highly selective institutions are less likely to work in school sector

Data highlights career benefits of higher education amid pitch for more participation

Australian study finds good prospects for research degree graduates, so long as they look beyond academia

Many who study science do not pursue it as a career, sociologist John Skrentny has found, and toxic work cultures mean that few of those who do enter industry stay for long

Oxford researchers say more international students are staying in UK beyond two-year period allowed by post-study work visa, but many of them are not going into graduate-level jobs

Lost earnings and missed workplace experience means PhD graduates will take decades to catch up on postgraduates despite higher wages, analysis shows

Strathclyde principal flags growing realisation that greater national coordination is needed between universities and businesses

Amid heavy attention on certificates and scepticism toward traditional higher education, Georgetown jobs projection shows rising value of four-year graduates

Â鶹 Office list of top-ranked universities giving graduates visa eligibility adds two Chinese institutions, but stretching to India â€˜would boost UK employers’

Higher study can mean little to one’s pay packet and can in some cases reduce it, says research that raises questions about Universities Accord’s expansionary vision

Event hears how even the best performing students can struggle to get a job if they lack soft skills

Dominant role of UK capital in highly skilled employment means university leavers elsewhere may find it harder to fully capitalise on their degrees, says IFS

Technology’s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ‘human skills’ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London

Employers increasingly wary of harming diversity drives with arbitrary thresholds

While Britain has gained ground as top-choice destination, it is being pipped by a resurgent Australia

While universities have their work cut out for them, skills forecasting agency says more graduates is not always the answer

In reviving controversial gainful employment rule, administration also worries traditional institutions by requiring they publicly report their own graduate salary data

New graduate employment measure indicates that university leavers working in education and healthcare find their work most meaningful, with some jobs usually considered ‘highly skilled’ falling short

Developing countries should not hesitate to tap the sustainable development expertise abundant in graduate schools, says Lucia Rodriguez 

Academia can only host a fraction of doctoral graduates, but few universities collect destinations data showing where their other PhDs end up, making it hard to prepare new recruits for appealing alternatives

More people need degrees just to keep up with the crowd, analysis of Australian census data suggests

National Bureau of Statistics suspends release of figures, leaving universities in the dark over how situation is developing

Biden's debt forgiveness plan may have been blocked but everyone will suffer if graduates can't afford to spend, says F. King Alexander

Various methods exist to help students decide which courses will pay off, but all should be taken with a grain of salt, say David Levy and Harvey Graff

Longitudinal Education Outcomes data has been published annually since 2017

While Treasury’s effort to look beyond economics boasts just a handful of education metrics, O’Kane panel has been asked to change that

Sector must meet demands of students who increasingly expect help landing a job, scholar says

Flexibility of big firms not replicated in most heavily regulated professions

Influx of foreign investment brings opportunities to train skilled workers but institutions must adapt to capitalise

Statistics also show degree classification makes little difference to a graduate’s chance of finding a job after university

Graduates who can make connections across time and disciplines would be more stimulated, in both the workplace and wider life, says Harvey Graff

Delays in degrees being awarded because of ongoing marking boycott could leave those with job offers in limbo

Tracking doctoral alumni in other sectors would inform departments about what their specific training allows graduates to do, says Patrick Walsh

Tough job market forces authorities to introduce measures aimed at simplifying graduates’ entry into the workplace

Many university graduates choose to remain unemployed rather than take a job they do not consider commensurate with their degrees, says Pushkar

Rapid growth of country’s universities and inadequate teaching have short-changed students, according to scholars

Oversupply of poorly trained workers in some fields contrasts with undersupply in others. Universities and students need better information, says Pushkar

To retain students, US institutions must give credit for learning that occurs in professional settings, say Stephen Handel and Eileen Strempel

Encouraging graduates into teaching would bring a ready-made army of advocates for university study into daily contact with pupils, says Jane White

The honours system has too narrow a scope and too few grades. Why not embrace the Hear and the GCSE scale, asks Zahir Irani

Joblessness and further study on the wane as labour market bounces back

Limiting international student numbers or cutting post-study work eligibility is not the way to become a science superpower, says Max Lu

Decision to deter non-EU students with fees likely to ratchet up pressure in an already stretched labour market, particularly for energy and other engineering graduates

Lacklustre employment for doctorate holders betrays ‘disconnect’ between academia and private sector employers, scholars say

Lack of consensus over how to define economic worth of programmes to student and taxpayer hampers education department’s efforts

Only 3 per cent of firms in survey had hired someone using the new graduate route

Seeing degrees solely as gateway qualification to the modern labour market ‘neither just nor efficient’, says government adviser on skills

Institute of Student Employers survey tracks trend towards â€˜qualification blind’ recruitment

Research reveals more detailed picture of where students go to work after finishing their degree

US institutions continue to dominate 2022 Global University Employability Ranking

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development calls for a rethink to skills policy, including apprenticeships, following new findings on graduate employment

Institute of Student Employers says rising inflation means graduates face a 7 per cent pay cut