The two bar charts illustrate the UK 
graduates
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postgraduates
' future decisions after leaving college in 2008, their choices were distributed by 4 conditions - being a part-time worker, voluntary worker, unemployment and going to Use synonyms
further
 study. Those who started full-time Linking Words
work
 did not participate in the data collection.
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Overall
, the trends of the two groups are quite similar, most of the Linking Words
students
 in both groups wanted to continue studying and the minority of Use synonyms
students
 chose to become voluntary workers. Use synonyms
However
, the sizes of the two groups are rather different, the Linking Words
number
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students
 who were Use synonyms
graduates
 is far more than the Use synonyms
students
 who were Use synonyms
postgraduates
. 
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It is clear that
 the majority of Linking Words
graduates
, almost 30000 of them, greatly outnumbered their counterparts who ended up in the other three situations. Use synonyms
In contrast
, only 3500 Linking Words
graduates
 engaged in voluntary Use synonyms
work
, making it the least common post-graduation destination. Use synonyms
Moreover
, those who worked part-time and were unemployed were nearly the same in Linking Words
number
, at 17,735 and 1,6235 respectively, which were a little higher than the double of Use synonyms
further
 study.
Looking into the information for more details, the Linking Words
number
 of post-graduate Use synonyms
students
 in each classification was nearly one-tenth of the Use synonyms
number
 of Use synonyms
graduates
, except for people going on to Use synonyms
work
 part-time. There were 2,535 Use synonyms
postgraduates
 who started to Use synonyms
work
 as part-time workers. Use synonyms
While
 around 3000 Linking Words
postgraduates
 continued being  Use synonyms
students
, the group of voluntary workers were still the smallest with 345 people and 1,625 Use synonyms
postgraduates
 were unemployed.Use synonyms