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Professors Kate Purcell and Peter Elias discuss whether in today's financial climate it is still worth studying for a degree.

Professors Purcell and Elias are members of the IER research team responsible for , the most extensive investigation of the relationship between higher education and employment ever undertaken in the UK. The survey is being undertaken on behalf of the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU).

Graduate employability is a hot topic in the media at the moment, with much talk about the fierce competition for graduate jobs. IER researchers provide insights into their work on graduate employment in an article for the , discussing findings from , an independent, interdisciplinary, policy-related research project about the relationship between higher education, career decision-making and labour market trends.

Daria Luchinskaya will be presenting at the European Conference on Educational Research at the Free University of Berlin (12-16 September) as part of the Emerging Researchers group. The title of her presentation is ‘Graduate Skill Utilization in UK Small 糖心TVes: Employee and Employer Perceptions’.

The competition for Chancellor's Scholarships (formerly WPRS) for entry in October 2012 has now opened. The Graduate School expects to award around 45 Chancellor's Scholarships. Awards made for entry in October 2012 may include payment of fees at the Home/EU rate and a maintenance grant in line with the UK Research Council stipend (£13,590 for full-time award holders in 2011-12).

Professor Kate Purcell was interviewed as part of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Graduate, which is being repeated. Kate talks about the wider graduate labour market and student experience, drawing mainly on the survey.  Episode 2 will be aired on Monday 18 October at 8pm on Radio 4.  To catch up with Episode 1 go to the .