Crunching DLHE data online
St Mary’s University College (part of The Careers Group, University of London), is one of the first colleges in the UK to use Destinations Interactive, a new online DLHE system, which allows careers professionals and other HE staff to 'crunch' DLHE data easily and effectively.
Users can log in to the site and run any number of reports, for example on job sectors, comparative years and gender (so you can, for example, find the top employer for female sports science students over the past three DLHE surveys).
An introductory session for careers liaison staff at St Mary’s was well received. An 'Academic Working Lunch' is now planned to spread the word further. The St Mary’s Student Recruitment Team has already been trained up to use the system for pre-entry advice, giving potential new students an insight into destination information for their individual courses at the touch of a button, rather than by having to leaf through individual sheets of data!
This article was first submitted to Phoenix (May 2010).