Higher Tuition Fees may mean graduate employers engage with students earlier
Higher tuition fees for university students may be the catalyst for earlier engagement of graduate employers with potential recruits, bringing apprenticeships back into play.
This emerged from a graduate recruitment roundtable supported by Michael Page, the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) and Recruiter held in London last week. The delegates were told that after tuition fees rise next year, it will take the top 10% of earners 15 years to repay their debts.
Denise Keating, Chief Executive at EFA suggests that higher tuition fees would stop good people from going to university and increases in those studying for a degree while working. Elizabeth Ewen, head of talent at Michael Page International, said that schemes such as Michael Page’s Work and Learn could help address the issue by providing young people with the best of both worlds, earning whilst studying.
Most at the roundtable agreed that engagement with young people should start at an earlier age, such as secondary schools. Dennis Gissing, head of diversity practice at BT, asked whether university delivered what employees asked for. University is important but not the only thing, young people will now be looking for alternatives to university and for opportunities to be qualified in a different way.
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