The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses.

Gerbrand Tholen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. His work focuses on the relationship between higher education and the labour market.