Around 500,000 new graduates are leaving UK universities and colleges up and down the country this summer. Those long years of study, never-ending nights of revision and the plethora of life-changing experiences – including gaining a place at college in the first place – are coming to an end. But, what’s next for the class of ’22?
Employability is at the forefront of many of our minds: so much so that HEPI has dedicated a weekly blog to the topic for the last three months. The killer question that piqued HEPI’s curiosity during a recent lunch with Handshake’s UK leadership team was: how many graduates take up jobs in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)?