The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008.

The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008.
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The bar charts provided reveal the destination of British graduate and postgraduate students with the exception of those who attained full-time jobs after finishing college.
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, as can be vividly seen from the diagrams, in both categories,
further
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study
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was the most
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destination,
whereas
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voluntary
work
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received not much attention.
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, almost the same number of postgraduate students who attended
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study
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did part-time
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,
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for graduates, the same pattern did not transpire. As illustrated by the charts, the figures for graduate students, regarding three clusters, namely voluntary
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,
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, and unemployment, were approximately ten times higher than those of postgraduates, at 3,500, 29,665, and 16,235, respectively. The numbers for part-time
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, followed a different pattern. More precisely, for graduates,
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number was slightly lower compared to the figure for
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study
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, at 2,535 compared with 2,725,
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for graduates, the figure was nearly one-half of that for
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study
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, at 17,735 in comparison with 29,665.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "further, while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words study, work with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "compared" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 3 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Graduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Full-time work
  • Further education
  • Part-time work
  • Unemployment
  • Volunteering
  • Traveling
  • Gap year
  • Career progression
  • Job market
  • Transition
  • Academic life
  • Professional sphere
  • Economic factors
  • Social factors
  • Financial crisis
  • Long-term impact
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