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Scotland and Wales to pilot phone outreach for international graduates

A new graduate outcomes pilot will contact international alumni by telephone from December 2026 as the sector seeks stronger evidence of graduate outcomes beyond the UK.

Improving the evidence base on international graduate outcomes remains a key priority for the UK higher education sector.

National productivity and wellbeing is the output of our creative capacity

Creative degrees may not attract the largest graduate salaries, but you can't achieve critical national priorities without creative skills.

On Monday, a new Policy Exchange report added to the ever-growing pile of literature and comment about whether too many young people are going to university.

‘Unfair and demoralising’: Thousands of graduates earning less than £12.71 an hour five years after leaving university

Tens of thousands of university graduates are earning less than the national living wage five years after finishing their degree, shocking new data shows.

Graduate outcomes have become one of the defining measures of success in higher education.

Dr Omar Khan reflects on the growing scepticism about the value of higher education, arguing that while degrees still improve outcomes, action is needed to reduce costs, close equality gaps and better explain universities’ wider social value.

Spend ten minutes talking to a soon-to-be graduate about their job search and you might come away convinced that a university degree has become a confidence trick.

HESA’s Graduate Outcomes survey shows little change in the graduate labour market with a small fall in employment levels 15 months after leaving higher education.

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Graduate Outcomes, 2023-24

05 June 2026

DK gets beyond the headlines in this year’s graduate outcomes data.

Graduate employment falls as one in five apply for 100 jobs

Survey reveals rising unemployment among university leavers, while female graduates are more likely to work part-time but less likely to be unemployed than men.

Drop in graduate employment ‘a cooling, not a collapse’

Fifth of job hunters report applying for more than 100 roles amid continued questioning of the value of a degree.

Debt-ridden graduates seen as ‘cash cows’ to fund older people’s lifestyles, MPs told

7. Student loans crisis ‘comparable to PPI scandal’, education tsar suggests | Independent 8. 'With debt rising and jobs scarce, were our degrees worth it?' | BBC

University students are becoming increasingly perfectionistic, with growing fears about failure, mistakes and being judged by others, according to new research co-authored by Dr Thomas Curran, Associate Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and...

Last year on this site, Claire considered the complexity of student identities and outcomes. Now, Graduate Futures Institute’s 2026 What Happens Next? report brings a fresh perspective on this topic.

It’s not just the curriculum that tells students of colour this place wasn’t built for them

The data on degree outcomes gets the headlines, but Wonkhe's new Community and Policy Officer Sharanya Sivarajah argues that belonging is also shaped by who's behind the desk in the services designed to support them.

Scotland and Wales to pilot phone outreach for international graduates

International Graduate Outcomes: pilot to strengthen data on global graduates

National productivity and wellbeing is the output of our creative capacity

Britain doesn't need fewer graduates, it needs better ones

‘Unfair and demoralising’: Thousands of graduates earning less than £12.71 an hour five years after leaving university

Is it time for a Graduate Excellence Framework?

Gear change needed but universities are still engines of social mobility

The graduate job market is grim right now – but the data says university is still worth it

87% of 2023/24 graduates in work or further study according to new official statistics

Graduate Outcomes, 2023-24

Graduate employment falls as one in five apply for 100 jobs

Drop in graduate employment ‘a cooling, not a collapse’

Debt-ridden graduates seen as ‘cash cows’ to fund older people’s lifestyles, MPs told

New research finds university students experiencing increasing levels of perfectionism

We’re collecting graduate voice data – but are we really listening?

It’s not just the curriculum that tells students of colour this place wasn’t built for them