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The press release actually tells you nothing about why these graduates weren't in fields related to their degrees, or how they classified this. May have been nothing to do with the jobs not being there. STEM qualifications give you skills for all sorts of careers and plenty realise after studying a subject they aren't cut out to work in the field directly. Having read around this issue I thought the skills gap and unfilled jobs were more related to increasing specialisation. Certainly a recent interview with ARM revealed they usually reckon on 1 in 100 applicants having the specific skills they require. So jobs remain unfilled.

On 8 Sep 2011 17:32, "Andrew Russell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, what are the equivalent figures for accountancy or media studies? The stat for physics means nothing without that info and I didn't see it on the press release.
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> The implication of a report presented today at the London conference of the British Educational Research Association is that school leavers could further their career prospects by opting for accountancy, media studies or the like, when choosing a university course. They should think long and hard before entering physics or engineering on their UCAS forms, for if they do, there is a nearly one in four chance that they will end up working in non-graduate jobs or unskilled work after returning the hired graduation gown and cap to the costumier.
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> http://www.bera.ac.uk/files/2011/09/science1.pdf
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> How on Earth are we supposed to spin this *for* science?
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