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Research reports

HECSU has published a range of reports on research and development projects that it has funded or co-funded. Please use the links below to access a description and a copy of the report as a pdf.

• Why Work Experience matters! (2009)
• Part-time undergraduates in higher education: a literature review (2009)
• How are Higher Education Career Services Experiencing the Recession? (2009)
• Futuretrack reports
  • Plans, aspirations and realities: taking stock of higher education and career choices one year on.  (Stage 2 Report 2009)
  • Futuretack Stage1 Summary (2008)
  • Applying for Higher Education - the diversity of career choices, plans and expectations ( Stage 1 Report 2008)
  • Applying for Higher Education - Career Choices and Plans (Preliminary Stage 1 Report 2007)
• Futuretrack related reports
  • Student Volunteers: A National Profile
• Graduate Market Trends (Quarterly publication with information on and research into the graduate labour market, graduate careers and other higher education issues)
• Higher Degrees: Postgraduate Study in the UK 2000/01 to 2005/06
• Putting Research Outcomes into Practice (PROP)
  • Break-Out or Break-Up?
  • Career pathways for graduates into the voluntary/community sector
  • Working class students and the career decision-making process
• What Do Graduates Do?
  • What do graduates do? (2009)
  • What do graduates do? (2008)
  • What do graduates do? 2008 (2007)
  • What do graduates do? (2006)
  • What Do Graduates Do? Scotland (2008)
  • What Do Graduates Do? Scotland (2007)
  • What Do Masters Graduates Do? (2007)
  • Graduates' First Destinations by Age, Ethnicity and Gender (2006)
  • Learning through work placements and beyond (2006)
  • Credit-Bearing Careers Education (2006) 
  • Employability and career progression for UK masters students (2006) 
  • A Systematic Literature Review of Research into Career-related Interventions for Higher Education (2005)
  • Careers Advisory Services and International Students (2005)
  • Managing e-Guidance interventions within HE careers services (2004) 
  • Seven years on (2004)
  • HE Careers Services & Diversity (2003)
  • Career Services: Technology and the Future (2001)
  • Working out (1999)
  • Moving on (1999)
• Further research reports published by or with other organisations:
  • The changing context of career practice: guidance,counselling or coaching? (2006)
  • Towards an open and competative European area for research careers (2008)
  • Enhancing employment recognising diversity report (2002)
  • What do Foundation Degree graduates do? Plymouth (2007)
  • Class of '99 (2005)
  • Delivering Quality (2005)

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