Destinations of Students Gaining Qualifications from Higher Education Institutions, 2007/08

The bulletin includes data on Welsh domiciled qualifiers and those who studied at Welsh HEIs.  The data included here are taken from the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s (HESA) 2007/08 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) record.

The key points from the latest bulletin are:

• Around three-quarters of both Welsh domiciled qualifiers (76 per cent) and qualifiers from Welsh institutions (74 per cent) entered some sort of work. 6 per cent and 7 percent of Welsh domiciles and qualifiers from Welsh HEIs respectively were assumed to be unemployed, with the majority of the remainder entering study only.
• Qualifiers who studied at Welsh HEIs or had a Welsh domicile background were less likely to remain in Wales for employment when compared to other UK countries but are comparable to most English regions.
• The proportions entering each destination activity type have shown only small changes over the period 2003/04 to 2007/08.

Data on Destinations of Students Completing Initial Teacher Training Courses in Wales 2007/08, are published in a supplementary headline.

Further information can be found on the StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5043
E-mail: he.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

September 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)