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University applications down by 5%

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Original post by Mathemagicien
Golf management would be a good example, I suppose.


You walked into it didn't you.
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/sportex/app-golf-mgt-studies.aspx#EmployabilityTab

Also
http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/subjects/employment/10006840FT-K0196/ReturnTo/
£19k after 6 months and 5% unemployed.

(this is only £2k less than Maths at Birmingham, and it has an 8% unemployment rate)
(edited 7 years ago)
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Original post by Mathemagicien
Your claim is that because golf management jobs exist, that means that golf management graduates are more employable than non-graduates?

What are their average earnings? How do they calculate the employment rate (is that the same method that shows Oxbridge graduates are less employable than graduates of some much less prestigious Unis?)


See my edit.
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Original post by Mathemagicien
Interesting that the numbers don't match up with what they claim on their website.


Which numbers? They say "94.4% employability rate" and I said 5% unemployed. Sounds pretty close (and probably a different year anyway).
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Original post by jneill
Which numbers? They say "94.4% employability rate" and I said 5% unemployed. Sounds pretty close (and probably a different year anyway).
Employability? That means they reckon a company would touch them with a bargepole. 5.6% unemployABLE is a cause for concern.


Maybe they meant 94.4% got a job after leaving their institution but, if so, they should have said employMENT :smile:
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Original post by viffer
Employability? That means they reckon a company would touch them with a bargepole. 5.6% unemployABLE is a cause for concern.


Maybe they meant 94.4% got a job after leaving their institution but, if so, they should have said employMENT :smile:


Unistats gives it a 5% unemployment rate.

Unlike the 8% for maths.

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see what will happen in the next few years.
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See UCAS Blog post discussing the figures:
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/blog/Pages/UCAS-application-figures-factors-behind-the-decline.aspx

e.g.
"Perhaps the first thing to note is that the fall isn't a disaster. While the figures are down on 2016, applicant numbers by this point in 2016 were at a record high. Applicants from the EU in particular are only very slightly below 2015, which at that time was the highest they'd ever been. Given that since then the UK has voted to leave the EU, it is perhaps not surprising that their numbers have fallen despite government guarantees that tuition fees and loans will remain in place for EU students entering UK universities in 2019. And even with the fall, the number of applicants from the EU is already above the number of applicants from the EU who were accepted in the 2016 cycle."

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