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Graduate Utilisation In British Industry: The Initial Impact Of Mass Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Geoff Mason
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The recent growth in higher education participation rates in Britain has been so sudden and so rapid that there is now intense public interest in its effects on graduate employment and salary prospects. Particular concern has been expressed about the development of certain phenomena associated with US-style ‘mass higher education‘, for example, an increase in the numbers of graduates who appear to be ‘under-utilised’ in jobs which have not traditionally been filled by degree-holders, and reports of apparent growth in variation in ‘quality’ of the graduates emerging from different kinds of degree course.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 156 , May 1996 , pp. 93 - 103
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Copyright © 1996 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Conference on The Highly Qualified in the Labour Market, University of Warwick, in February 1996. I would like to thank Yvonne Stremmer for excellent research assistance on the graduate utilisation study. I am also grateful to the Employment Department (now part of the Department for Education and Employment) for providing financial support for that project; the Department is not responsible in any way for the views expressed in this paper.

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