What do UEL Graduates Do

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What do UEL Graduates Do?

• Femi BolaFrances GowRaksha Mehta
• UEL Employability Team Student Services

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Destinations of Leavers from HE (DLHE)

• Key findings
• Collection methodology
• Employment performance indicator
• Graduate level employment
• Employer engagement

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Good News

• UEL rated excellent in Allied Health
  Professions, Architecture, English and Psychology
• Sunday Times University Guide (2008)
• Improved employment levels in
• Health Bioscience, Psychology, Education and
  Law

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Key Results
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Collection Methodology

• 73 response rate overall
• Of this response - 12 from postal survey, 80
  from telephone survey, 8 refused to
  participate
• Trained telephone interviewers
• Prize draw incentive

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Employment Performance Indicator

• 93.0
• 2.6 above the UEL benchmark 90.4
• (1.2 rise on last years benchmark)
• Benchmark Subject of study, entry
  qualifications, ethnicity, age on entry and
  gender
• EPI Full time, first degree, home students
• Work Study (or both)
• Work Study (or both) Unemployed

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Graduate Level Employmentby Ethnicity
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Graduate Level Employmentby Gender
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Graduate Level Employmentby Disability
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Improvements for next year

• Raise awareness of survey to improve response
  rate
• Improve prize draw incentive
• In depth analysis of the EPI group
• Employment trends of individual programmes

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Employability Successes

• Introduction of assessment centres
• Summer Jobs and Careers Fair
• Growth of summer placement scheme
• Credit Suisse Employability Conference
• Innovative practice Brunswick Interns
• CLM Initiative

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What Else?

• Improve availability of IAG
• More self development opportunities
• Getting more employers engaged
• More activities at Stratford
• More focused work with schools
• Raising awareness Home Students

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Finally

• Any questions?
• Slides report available online
• www.uel.ac.uk/employability/academic_fds.htm