This week on the podcast we look at the latest graduate recruitment trends as the Institute of Student Employers reveals a 60 per cent surge in applications per vacancy.
Plus OfS is to survey the prevalence of sexual misconduct, and there’s new NSS data on satisfaction by student characteristic.
With Julie Sanders, Vice Chancellor and Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London, Joe Cooper, Director of People and Culture at University of East London, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar at City St George’s University of London, and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.
What does the graduate jobs market look like right now?
A league table on sexual misconduct could be coming
NSS 2024 – results by student characteristics
Given the OfS seminar for SUs on the new regulations comprised 45 mins reading out what was on the website and 15 mins not directly answering questions including the intersection of harassment and free speech, something you think they’d have been giving some thoughts to, I suspect the whole thing will be a busted flush with the regulator unable to commit itself to saying whether any approach fails the standard.
I suspect the new workplace legislation, which gives people actual rights, is going to have more impact given it’s focus on proactively addressing sexual harassment. While students won’t be covered, a risk based approach to identifying issues can surely extend to students.