A majority of students believe that their education should be designed with future employment prospects in mind but reject the view that funding should be reduced for courses that do not secure good jobs for graduates.
The Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) polled 1,105 UK students to find out their views on career services and graduate employment amid a toughening up of rhetoric in Westminster about courses with “poor outcomes”.
The English regulator, the Office for Students, has introduced a new benchmark that states six in 10 graduates are expected to find professional work within 15 months of finishing a course, with institutions falling below the threshold facing penalties including potential fines or suspension of access to student support funding.
