Question follow-through · 115900

Unemployment: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of graduates who were not in high-skilled roles 15 months after graduation remain outside high-skilled employment a) three years later and b) five years later.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 25 Feb 2026
Target answer date: 2 Mar 2026
Answer: 2 Apr 2026 · 36 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of graduates who were not in high-skilled roles 15 months after graduation remain outside high-skilled employment a) three years later and b) five years later.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2026
Answer published
The department does not produce estimates of the proportion of graduates in high-skilled roles at three or five years after graduation.Graduate Outcome survey data published by HESA shows that around 70% of UK domiciled students who graduated with an unde...

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