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The gainers and losers from the United Kingdom's university-related migration: A subregional analysis of Graduate Outcomes Survey data

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© 2024 The Authors. Population, Space and Place published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Against the background of the rise in higher-education participation rates, this paper examines the spatial redistribution of undergraduates across the United Kingdom resulting from moves to and from university. Drawing on the Graduate Outcomes Surveys of 2017/2018 and 2018/2019, address data coded to 53 subregions (SRs) are used to track those enrolled on degree courses by age 20 from domicile to university and workplace 15 months after graduation. The paper begins by examining how university-ward migration serves to concentrate this group geographically and the way in which subsequent job-related moves tend to reinforce this process. Each person is then classified on the basis of their migration trajectories between domicile and workplace, enabling a set of migration accounts to be produced for each SR. Applying cluster analysis to these accounts, a six-way grouping of SRs is used to gauge change between their domicile and workplace populations in both overall numbers and qualitative characteristics, the latter being measured in terms of educational qualifications preuniversity and occupational status 15 months after graduation. These analyses demonstrate how the different types of SRs fare in these exchanges of students/graduates, with more subregions suffering the ‘double whammy’ of losing out in both quantitative and qualitative terms than gaining from this process, with challenging implications for central government's current ‘levelling-up’ agenda.


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Author(s): Champion T, Green A, Kollydas K

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Population, Space and Place

Year: 2024

Volume: 30

Issue: 5

Print publication date: 01/07/2024

Online publication date: 08/02/2024

Acceptance date: 21/01/2024

Date deposited: 09/04/2024

ISSN (print): 1544-8444

ISSN (electronic): 1544-8452

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2757

DOI: 10.1002/psp.2757

Data Access Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from HESA. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available from the author(s) with the permission of HESA. HESA Data caveat/attribution: "Copyright Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited 2021. Neither the Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited nor HESA Services Limited can accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third 12 of 14 | CHAMPION ET AL. 15448452, 0, Downloaded from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.2757 by Newcastle University, Wiley Online Library on [09/04/2024]. See the Terms and Conditions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions) on Wiley Online Library for rules of use; OA articles are governed by the applicable Creative Commons License parties from data or other information supplied by the Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited or HESA Services Limited."


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Research England grant West Midlands Regional Economic Development Institute

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