Idon’t play with data to generate headlines – I play with data to try to understand what the sector is like.
People do generally seem to appreciate a focus on analysis in these articles, but it doesn’t stop me wondering what things would be like if I went for big splashy headline findings and bothered less about what the data said.
Because HESA has wisely made it very difficult to build league tables off the back of Graduate Outcomes, I’m fairly sure that it will be a while before anyone else does it. Here’s what they’ll find, and the rest of this article is about why the findings are largely meaningless.
