He also quotes a single employer on how they prefer to employ school leavers to students who have attended a college.
A spokesman for Hesa conceded that, as it stands, the annual survey "does not provide sufficient detail to specifically identify the sub-category of self-employed leavers who start up their own businesses".
Buckinghamshire New: 57.0 per cent It comes after research revealed more than half of all university leavers are employed in a job that does not require a degree.
Had we been granted a licence we would have employed over 30 young school leavers immediately, but instead we have now downsized our production capability and are considering moving production overseas.
This was a heterogeneous group comprising applicants domiciled in the UK, Europe, and overseas, as well as school leavers and applicants who were not school leavers but were either employed or in higher education ("mature applicants") to both medical and dental schools in the UK.
Patterns of employment are often characterised by temporary, part-time or short-term work, and this is certainly the case for young care leavers – if they are employed at all.
Based on 2001 census data, the 30 excluded CCDs had a higher proportion of early school leavers (51%and4343%), persons employed in semi- and unskilled occupations (17% and 13%) and low income households (24% and 20%).
The sampled (n = 200) and non-sampled CCDs (n = 1425) had similar proportions of early school leavers (44%and43%3% respectively), persons employed in semi- and unskilled occupations (14% and 13%) and low income households (19% and 20%).
Feeling betrayed by their universities and their lecturers, some final-year students may now be wondering whether they should have applied instead to be apprentices of Sir Alan Sugar, an entrepreneur who thinks degrees stunt creativity and prefers to employ bright school-leavers.
A rapid increase in the number of university places in recent years has been accompanied by declining numbers of college leavers who regard themselves as suitably employed.
Our data employed in this paper primarily draw on the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey DLHEE) 2006/2007, collected by the UK's Higher Education Statistic Agency.
