Category: Graduate Outcomes
Talking about contemporary higher education means talking about work-aligned learning
Over the last decade, UK higher education has been insistently asked to prove that what happens in teaching and learning […]
February 4, 2026
What grade inflation panics miss about the real value of higher education
Cloaks swish. Cameras flash. It’s graduation day, the culmination of years of effort. It celebrates learning journeys whose outcomes have […]
January 26, 2026
Graduate careers and employability are now fundamental to institutional success
Higher education institutions are navigating one of the most complex operating environments in their history. Financial pressure, demographic change, regulatory […]
January 6, 2026
Side hustles, moonlighting, resting actors, and multiple jobholding in creative work
How do creatives sustain their careers? We used large UK datasets to map how careers work in creative occupations, showing […]
December 3, 2025
Why ideas of graduate success need to catch up with portfolio careers
For many graduates in the creative industries, the question “what do you do?” has never had a simple answer. A […]
November 25, 2025
How social mobility in HE can reproduce inequality – and what to do about it
by Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Louise Ashley, Eve Worth, and Chris Playford Higher education has become the go-to solution for social inequality […]
November 7, 2025