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.
The given bar charts
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the activities of graduate and postgraduate
students
at the end
of their studies in the United Kingdom in 2008.
Overall
, UK postgraduate
students
devoted the highest proportion of their activities to
further
study,
while
postgraduate
students
who undertook voluntary
work
had the lowest proportion.
According to
the first chart, approximately 3000 graduate
students
pursued
further
education, compared to 3500 engaged in voluntary
work
.
Additionally
, the numbers of people who were unemployed and those working part-time were very similar in numbers, with the former at 16235 and the latter at 17735. The second chart shows that the population of postgraduate pupils engaging in
further
study topped the list (about 3000), followed by part-time
work
slightly above 2500.
Moreover
,
while
345 postgraduate
students
did voluntary
work
, 1625 of them were unemployed.
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  • 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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