AGCAS contributes to research into European graduate prospects
Research to inform policies aiming to improve the employment and career prospects of high-skilled graduates throughout Europe has been commissioned by the European Commission. Jane Standley, AGCAS Director of Products and Services and Director of SEECC (Student Employment, Experience and Careers Centre) at the University of Reading, represented AGCAS at a national seminar for key informants in the UK, organised by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), which is carrying out the research in partnership with Centro de Estudios Económicos Tomillo S.L. of Spain and the University of Trento and Istituto per la Ricerca Socialein Italy.
Discussion points
Much discussion centred around the difficulties faced by those without appropriate networks or the means to take unpaid internships. The fact that growing numbers of graduates have to live in their parental home into their late 20s and early 30s as they are still trying to establish themselves in their graduate careers was another area of concern.
Recommendations
The information and policy recommendations collected through the seminars in the UK, Spain and Italy will be summarised in the final Synthesis Report and presented to the European Commission in February 2012. In addition, all the main project findings will be presented on 30th November 2011 at a major conference organised by the University of Trento. It is expected that future policy initiatives by the European Commission will be informed by the findings of this project.
Further information is available from the Skilled and Precarious project website.
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Created on: 01 November 2011
Last updated: 03 November 2011