Following the recent confidence vote in the Prime Minister, the message from government has very much been about the need to get on with policy priorities – one of which is clearly “levelling up”.
While the original Levelling Up White Paper from February doesn’t offer much detail on the role of higher education providers, it does highlight persistent regional inequalities.
There’s data and analysis on UK graduate migratory and regional retention patterns. The White Paper highlights that Wales, the North East, and Scotland have a higher share of employed graduates who studied and worked in their domiciled region – and that these graduates are also more likely to be in non-graduate level jobs.
