I’m on an admissions committee and universities need to talk about this
I’m on an admissions committee and universities need to talk about this Departments should publish graduate employment outcomes as openly as they publish merit lists. Dr Sumera Rashid Published July 27, 2026 Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x I have worked on my university’s Admission Committee for 16 years, long enough to have watched several cycles of both growth and contraction. But nothing in those years prepared me for what the last three or four have looked like, and nothing about the current decline is evenly spread.
- ▪I’m on an admissions committee and universities need to talk about this Departments should publish graduate employment outcomes as openly as they publish merit lists.
- ▪Dr Sumera Rashid Published July 27, 2026 Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x I have worked on my university’s Admission Committee for 16 years, long enough to have watched several cycles of both growth and contraction.
- ▪But nothing in those years prepared me for what the last three or four have looked like, and nothing about the current decline is evenly spread.
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| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:33:53 +0500 |
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I’m on an admissions committee and universities need to talk about this Departments should publish graduate employment outcomes as openly as they publish merit lists. Dr Sumera Rashid Published July 27, 2026 Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x I have worked on my university’s Admission Committee for 16 years, long enough to have watched several cycles of both growth and contraction. But nothing in those years prepared me for what the last three or four have looked like, and nothing about the current decline is evenly spread. It is concentrated, sharply, among girls applying to evening programmes.
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