One In Three Graduates Not Using Their Degrees

A new report has revealed that around one in three graduates end up working up in a job that does not require a degree.

Graduates who studeyed in arts, design and humanities appear to have the worst graduate jobs prospects, as do those from former polytechnics.

Amongst those who had graduated in creative and arts subjects, around six out of ten people surveyed found themseleves working in roles that were not just for those who had been through university. Around 30 percent of those who stuied English and other humantity subjects found themselves in the same position.

This study compared the jobs that new graduates are working in compared to those who had earned their degress in 1992, which for those of you are not aware, was the year that all polytechnics and colleges of higher education were granted university status.

In 1992, one in five male graduates were found to be working in a non graduate based job when they were 25 years old. Interestingly, this number has now risen greatly to around one in three.

Female graduates is a slighlty less worrying picture, in 1992 one in four female graduates were working in non graduate related positions, last year that number had risen to around one in three.

Despite the reported doom and gloom in the above subjects, those who studied in maths and science have rosier prospects. The study found that only one in five of those who studied in these sectors worked in non graduate jobs.

Dr Anna Vignoles, from the Institute of Education in London, said the problem was not an oversupply of graduates, but a shortage of those with the right skills.

"In some markets, like arts and humanities, we are over-supplied, but when it comes to maths and science, we still don't have enough people," she said.

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