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.
在高等教育参与率上升的背景下,本文研究了英国大学本科生因进出大学而产生的空间再分布。本文利用 2017/2018 年和 2018/2019 年的毕业生成果调查(Graduate Outcomes Surveys of 2017/2018 and 2018/2019),使用编码为 53 个子区域(SRs)的地址数据,追踪 20 岁之前就读学位课程的学生在毕业 15 个月后从户籍地到大学和工作场所的迁移情况。本文首先探讨了大学向外迁移是如何使这一群体在地理上集中的,以及随后与工作相关的迁移是如何强化这一过程的。然后,根据每个人在户籍地和工作地点之间的迁移轨迹对其进行分类,从而为每个 SR 建立一套迁移账户。将聚类分析应用到这些账户中,对员工代表进行六向分组,以衡量其户籍地和工作地点人口在总体数量和质量特征方面的变化,后者以大学前的学历和毕业 15 个月后的职业状况为衡量标准。这些分析表明了不同类型的员工代表在这些学生/毕业生交流中的表现,更多的次区域在数量和质量上都遭受了 "双重打击",而不是从中获益,这对中央政府当前的 "提升水平 "议程具有挑战性影响。
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