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Help wanted, apply within: seeking DLHE graduate employability data and other exciting opportunities
Professor Craig Mahoney 9th May 2013
National population 63 million
HE population 2.5 million
International Students430,000
TNE on UK programmes 500,000
Population under 30 in HE 43%
Academic staff in UK HE 180,000
Staff qualified to teach 38,000
UG = 1.9 million, PG = 600,000
Some numbers to get you started!
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Fee Structure Across the UK
Domicile of student
Location of institution
England Scotland Wales NI
England Up to £9k Up to £9k Up to £9k Up to £9k
Scotland Up to £9k No fee Up to £9k Up to £9k
WalesUp to
£3,465*Up to
£3,465*Up to
£3,465*Up to
£3,465*
NI Up to £9k Up to £9k Up to £9k Up to £3,465* balance met by Welsh Government through a non-means tested tuition fee grant, of up to £5,535,
• Higher education in UK, most turbulent times for decades/centuries
• High performance, less money, less time, less flexibility, more regulation
• Significant funding cuts, change in student population, increase in expectations
• Students at the heart, their needs heightened, their awareness raised and their voices heard
• Student numbers & tight number controls
• Future impact unclear & possibility of fragile business models
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Challenges – the short list!
• Blokes want data. Blokes like;
• Stephen Farry
• Leighton Andrews
• Mike Russell
• David Willetts
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Who wants data?
• Return on investment
• Policy drivers
• Responsible government
• HEI Performance Indicators
• Employer responsiveness and sensitivity to changing careers
• Monitor student demand
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What purpose data to government?
• HEI awarding the degree
• Classification of the degree
• Academic discipline studied
• Transcript of modules studied
• HEAR, transferable skills and graduate attributes
• Employment rates by broad subject
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What sits behind the data?
Policymakers
Institutions
Employers
Parents
Prospective students
Current students
International bodies
The public?
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Who else wants the data?
An under-appreciated national treasure
• Not just a survey of unemployment or jobs that graduates do.
covers the courses they study, how much they get paid (if at all)
where they are working and even how they found their job
useful for careers, for university administration and for policy
Not Just a Survey
• DLHE is one of the world’s best examinations of the employment of graduates
extremely comprehensive (80% coverage for early DLHE)
covers graduates at all qualification levels
only the Australians really have a comparable national survey
the early survey has been going for 50 years, so a rich time series
it’s followed up with a sample after 3.5 years
World's Best?
• HECSU use it to;
help careers advisors understand what graduates actually do when they graduate
produce publications on career options for university applicants
examine local jobs markets
investigate postgraduate study and the outcomes of that study
look into demand for specific subjects and occupations
track how graduates look for jobs and how that changes over time
How DLHE data is used
1. Commercial awareness (or business acumen)
2. Communication
3. Teamwork
4. Negotiation and persuasion
5. Problem solving
6. Leadership
7. Organisation
8. Perseverance and motivation
9. Ability to work under pressure
10. Confidence
Graduate Employment Skills
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CBI forecast predicts GDP growth to hit 0.6% for 2012 rising to 2% in 2013 (May 2012)
HEA’s Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2011:
50% agreed "I am encouraged to reflect on my professional development needs" (compared to 43% in 2009)
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/employability/pedagogy_for_employability_update_2012
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Employability
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Changing world
Responding to a changing world. Preparing students for a ‘globalised’ workplace and for the tough jobs market. PRES also found that no more than half of PGR students surveyed in 2011 agreed they had had their career and professional development needs met:
Professional Development and Career questions, % agree (Q7)
43.90%50.10% 47.20%
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7a) I am encouraged to think about the range of career opportunities that
are available to me.
7b) I am encouraged to reflect on my professional
development needs
7c) I am encouraged to reflect on my career development needs
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• Disparity between students’ perceptions of employability and those of employers
• Employers and students’ value work experience but barriers exist in provision and access
• Students lack awareness of SMEs in terms of requirements and opportunities
• Employers are confused by the range of employability awards and how to assess their value
• Many students are not engaged with employability or with enterprise education
• Assessing the impact of employability support is a challenge and needs to be addressed
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Perspectives – employer v student
Press Release Strictly embargoed until 00.01hrs Monday 14th January 2013
New research shows the graduate job market stalled in 2012 but vacancies at Britain’s leading employers are set to increase again in 2013
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High Fliers
High Fliers Research LimitedKing’s Gate, 1 Bravingtons Walk, London N19AETelephone 020 7428 9000 Fax 020 7428 9111 Email surveys@highfliers.co.uk
Institutional data: a potentially rich source of untapped information useful for planning and decision-making that is underexploited by institutions.
Yorke et al, 2005
Universities need to extract from the data around them intelligence needed to make sound decisions if they are to succeed in these challenging times.
Bekhradnia, 2005; 2007
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Gold in them there hills?
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know,
there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, 2002 20
Tackling the knowns and unknowns
DLHE
KIS: employability data
Curriculum development
Marketing Course
development/ market intelligence
Student experience:
triangulation with other data sources
(eg. NSS)
Prompts and levers for further
investigation
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One DLHE, many uses
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% employed by subject area 2010/11
Subject area EmployedUnemployed
Medicine & dentistry 90.8% 1.4%
Subjects allied to medicine 86.1% 4.4%
Biological sciences 67.5% 8.1%
Veterinary science 86.8% 6.4%
Agriculture & related subjects 67.1% 6.7%
Physical sciences 62.0% 9.2%
Mathematical sciences 61.6% 9.0%
Computer science 68.2% 12.7%
Engineering & technology 73.1% 8.8%
Architecture, building & planning 77.5% 7.9%
Social studies 73.8% 8.2%
Law 61.5% 7.1%
Business & administrative studies 76.6% 8.4%
Mass communications & documentation 75.9% 11.0%
Languages 64.7% 8.7%
Historical & philosophical studies 63.2% 8.5%
Creative arts & design 70.5% 10.8%
Education 88.4% 3.8%
Combined 70.8% 5.9%
Full-time first degree leavers by subject in Statistical First Release 178
Curriculum Relevance
Must develop a curricula robustly informed by a broader world view – not too British-centric or Euro-centric
• Individual institutional mission
• Enterprise & IT supported
• Broader knowledge
• Graduate and transferable skills
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On-going Development
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Graduate Employment?
The music-graduate human scarecrow: 'You've got to take every opportunity‘
Guardian, Monday 8 October 2012
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