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Taking pride in the job: university action on graduate employability

The current economic situation has taken its biggest toll on young people aged 16-25 with significantly higher leve ... Show more
The current economic situation has taken its biggest toll on young people aged 16-25 with significantly higher levels of unemployment amongst this age group than the general population. Graduates have shown resilience: 93 per cent of graduates from Scotland's universities are in the positive destinations of work or further study within six months of graduation. Universities are proud of the resilience graduates have shown given the scale of the challenges brought by the economic downturn. However, graduates are not immune. Scotland cannot afford for the talent, ambition and hope of any graduate to go unrecognised and unused. This is the premise from which Universities Scotland started a year-long engagement with business, students and universities. [Universities Scotland's] goal, and the focus of this report, was to: identify existing good practice which can be shared to enhance employability, and propose further action to continue to improve the employability of graduates.
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Corporate authors: Universities Scotland

Date: 2013

Geographic subjects: Scotland; Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Subjects: Students; Higher education; Employment ... [+] Show more