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17 September 2009
Graduates offer more in the long term, specialist states
Pumping money into higher education is an investment that will benefit over a long period of time, one expert has suggested.
Editor of independent university guide Push.co.uk Johnny Rich noted that the skills and training that university leavers have can be expected to pay dividends from between ten and 50 years.
He remarked: 'Every time you educate someone you … give them potential to learn more over the course of their life and therefore pay higher taxes as a result.' -
16 September 2009
Graduates find Jobcentre Plus inadequate, expert says
Jobcentre Plus may not be perceived as useful by the majority of graduates, one expert has suggested.
Chairman of the Recruitment Society Steve Huxman said that university leavers are just one of a number of demographics that may feel the service does not cater for them.
According to Mr Huxman, once it became obvious that the graduate employment market was going to be affected by the recession 'you have to have a mechanism there within the likes of Jobcentre Plus [so] that you can react fairly quickly to it'. -
14 September 2009
Britain needs graduates, expert says
Graduate workers are very important for the future of the UK economy, one expert has said.
Johnny Rich, Editor of university guide Push.co.uk, said that in order to remain a world leader Britain will require a 'higher-educated workforce', which means more people need to go to university and training has to be available for employees throughout their lives.
'The future economy of the UK will require as many graduates as possible basically,' he remarked.
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