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Graduates from these subjects often have higher average employment than the average employment of all graduates from the 2009/10 cohort. Table 1 shows the activities of graduates from the Destinations of leavers from higher education survey, conducted six months after graduation in 2009/10.
| Numbers graduating (survey respondents) | Entering employment | Entering further study/training | Working and studying | Unemployed at time of survey | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy, physiology and pathology | 2740 | 63.4% | 17.7% | 4.0% | 8.0% | 6.8% |
| Nursing | 9710 | 85.4% | 1.2% | 6.1% | 2.2% | 5.2% |
| Medicine | 6295 | 88.8% | 5.2% | 3.3% | 0.1% | 2.5% |
| Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacy | 2465 | 64.0% | 9.1% | 18.9% | 3.2% | 5.0% |
| All subjects | 233865 | 62.2% | 13.5% | 7.6% | 8.5% | 8.3% |
Source: DLHE 2009/10
The number of graduates with an anatomy, physiology and pathology degree have decreased since 2009 from 2,960 to 2,740. Employment has gone down (from 66.4% to 63.4%) but is still above the average for all graduates from 2009/10, unemployment has gone up to 8.0% and the proportion of graduates entering further study or working and studying have also dropped.
There is an increase in the number of people graduating in medicine and nursing with over 1000 more nursing, graduates in 2009/10 compared to last year. Both of these subjects are vocational in nature and so employment for graduates from them is a lot higher (above 80%) than the average for all graduates (62.2%) from the 2009/10 cohort and destinations are not as varied as other non-vocational degrees. It is encouraging that, even though cuts in public spending have started to have an impact on the opportunities available to work in the public sector, the proportion of nursing graduates finding work has not changed and stayed at 85.4%. The same is not true for medicine graduates as the proportion of those entering employment dropped to 88.8% from 89.3%, however unemployment has dropped to 0.1% whilst those working and studying or doing other activities increased.
There is a slight improvement in the proportion of graduates from 2009/10 going into employment and a drop in unemployment. The unemployment of graduates from these subjects (3.2%) remains well below the national average for graduates from the whole 2009/10 cohort at 8.5%. Whilst the proportion of those going on to further study have decreased, there are more working and studying six months after graduation.
Written by HECSU and AGCAS, October 2011
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