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GRADUATES TAKE HOME £20,000

7/4/2008 6:37:00 AM

     

The Guardian 3 July

  Graduates leaving full-time degree courses are earning an average salary of £20,000, and nearly two thirds find full-time jobs within six months of graduating, according to figures published today by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Of the 190,385 full-time students who got a degree in June 2007, 64% entered the world of full-time work, 16% stayed in full-time study - both the same as the previous year - and slightly more (9% compared with 8% last year) opted to combine work with study. Just 6% were assumed to be unemployed after leaving their course, the first destinations survey of graduates, conducted six months after graduation found.Guardian

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