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HECSU launches Graduate Market Trends election special

The Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) has launched a Graduate Market Trends ‘Election Special’, featuring insight to the latest policies and debates from some of the leading lights in higher education.

The quarterly journal published today (23 April 2015) covers higher education themes central to the country’s economic health, including careers advice, social mobility and further education policy:

• Associate VP for Public Affairs at The University of Manchester and departing GuildHE head Andrew Westwood gives his no holds barred view on the state of the sector in the built up to the election.
• The Association of Colleges sets out its vision of further education in the new era, discussing how only an autonomous and employer-led local further education model will solve the skills gap and improve access to higher education.
• The Sutton Trust presents the case for social mobility as the linchpin of higher education and careers policy in the next parliament.
• The International Centre for Guidance Studies reviews recent careers guidance policy and argues that the main political parties must do better in 2015.
• The Mixed Economy Group of Colleges show how autonomous colleges can go further than Polytechnics ever did in filling the growing higher-level skills gap.

Aphrodite Papadatou, editor of GMT said: “This special edition weaves several policies and debates, culminating in a cry that can’t be ignored. Our aim is not only to inspire everyone who has an interest in the future of higher education but to really lodge our mission deep in the heart of the economic debate.”

The latest edition of GMT can be read for free at www.hecsu.ac.uk

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