Age and First Destination Employment from UK Universities: Are Mature Students Disadvantaged?

Autor/in	Woodfield, Ruth
Titel	Age and First Destination Employment from UK Universities: Are Mature Students Disadvantaged?
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 36 (2011) 4, S.409-425 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
Schlagwörter	Adults; Disadvantaged; Labor Market; College Graduates; Education Work Relationship; Correlation; Employment Potential; Salaries; Science Education; Females; Gender Differences; Graduate Study; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Korrelation; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Geschlechterkonflikt; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article analyses a recent cohort (2006) of UK graduates, and explores the previously neglected relationship between age and post-degree employment. Much work on mature students assumes their overall experience to be one of disadvantage relative to traditional-age graduates, and this includes employability research. Here, mature students are demonstrated to be advantaged in the graduate labour market through analysis of a wide range of variables and employment success measures, utilised to produce a detailed set of findings that augment previous understanding. Mature graduates, regardless of whether they studied part- or full-time, secured paid work, graduate-level work, and a higher salary more frequently. Key mediating factors in their success include being a woman science student and having a history of previous employment with their post-degree employer. The relative employment success of mature students could not, however, be explained simply as a result of them already being in pre-degree graduate-level jobs. (Contains 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10