§ Mr. ÖpikTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK citizens with post-graduate degrees 187W obtained at British universities who have subsequently taken up employment abroad; and if he will make a statement. [83356]
§ Mr. MudieThe available information relates only to the destinations of individual cohorts of postgraduate qualifiers six months after qualification.
The latest figures relating to 1996–97 show that of the 17,367 UK domiciled full-time postgraduate qualifiers from GB higher education institutions for whom we have destination information, 1,100 (or 6 per cent.) are reported to have taken up employment overseas.