The bar charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant

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data about what graduate and postgraduate
students
of
UK
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did after leaving college rather than full-time
work
in 2008. Overall, it is clear that the number of
students
aimed
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for
further
study was higher in both graduate and postgraduate
student
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students
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, while voluntary
work
was the least significant among them in the given period. Among
graduate
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graduates
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, 29,665
students
thought about
further
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study which was the highest among all four options. In
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, the number of
students
in
voluntary
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work
segment was 3500, which was the least popular destination
of
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graduates.
However
, the figures for
part time
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work
and unemployment seemed quite similar (17735 and 16235 respectively). The
numbers
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of postgraduates who decided to do
further
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study
was
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2725 and 2535 aimed for part-time
work
. Like graduates, voluntary
work
appeared to be less popular among postgraduates and the figure was only 345.
Lastly
, 1625
postgraduate
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postgraduates
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of
UK
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the UK
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were not in the
work force
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in the given period.
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