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Charlie Ball's blog post for HECSU

The High Fliers survey of employers, The Graduate Market in 2013, is out this morning [1 July 2013].

The report follows the usual pattern – it’s a very good examination of a small group of influential, London employers with large graduate training schemes, and so is very good if you’re interested in that sort of job. It’s not very good either if you’re not interested in that kind of role, and nor is it very good at examining the UK graduate jobs market as it is actually experienced by all but a small minority of graduates.

Predictably, national media reporting focuses on a reports of £29k starting salaries – the average graduate starting salary is not £29k, it’s £20k, as HESA showed us last week with their far larger and more representative destination data.

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