Growing Future Talent

Graduates to drive our future competitiveness

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In the UK’s global, knowledge-based economy, 80% of new jobs are in high-skill areas and require graduates with a high-tech, high-skill and innovative approach. A graduate contributes between 20 and 48 per cent greater productivity to the labour market than employees holding lesser qualifications. In 2000, the UK was 3rd amongst top industrialised nations in terms of the proportion of young people graduating. In 2008 we had fallen to 15th position because our competitor countries have been investing at a faster rate than us. It is vital that we move towards a system that is flexible enough to educate the number of graduates that will be needed if we are to remain competitive. Alliance universities are leaders in developing graduate attributes, meeting the needs of employers and giving graduates a head start in the graduate market place. As a result, Alliance graduates have some of the highest graduate-level employment rates and prospects. For example, 93% of Northumbria graduates are in graduate-level employment after 3 years and Engineering graduates from Nottingham Trent University have joint highest graduate prospects with Imperial.