University Doctors As Waiters And Clerks

"Non-professional level employment" more common than ever.

Nearly 95 per cent of new graduates who want a job find one within six months but a third of the jobs they take do not require a degree.

Five years, later, a fifth of graduates are still in "non-professional-level employment" working as clerks, secretaries, retail assistants, or catering, waiting and bar staff.

However, What Do Graduates Do? said the graduate unemployment rate had more than halved during the Nineties, when the number of graduates doubled.

"The graduate employment market has never looked healthier," this statement is crystal-clear.

Of last year' s 210,000 graduates, nearly 70 per cent went straight into a job-at an average salary of just under £ 18,000-while nearly 20 per cent continued their studies.