Statistics Publication Notice: Early Destinations of Students Qualifying from Scottish Higher Education Institutions 2011-12

Statistics on the first destinations of leavers from Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), 6 months after qualifying.


Table 9: First destination of Scottish domiciled leavers from Scottish HEIs by ethnicity: 2011-12

Scottish domiciled leavers from Scottish HEIs

No. of Leavers Study/Training
(%)
UK employment
(%)
Overseas employment
(%)
Believed unemployed
(%)
Other
(%)
All ethnic backgrounds 35,400 16.8 70.8 2.0 5.8 4.6
Asian - Chinese 220 24.1 53.6 6.8 12.3 2.7
Asian - Indian 205 19.2 67.0 2.0 6.4 4.9
Asian - Pakistani 445 20.1 61.7 0.9 13.2 4.0
Asian - other 155 20.9 58.8 2.0 12.4 6.5
Black 270 22.4 55.1 1.8 19.1 1.5
White 32,925 16.7 71.3 1.9 5.4 4.6
Mixed background 365 18.4 61.5 4.4 11.0 4.4
Other ethnic background 100 21.6 52.0 13.7 7.8 3.9
Unknown 715 9.2 76.8 2.5 6.7 4.9

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
Data weighted according to response rates (see Methodological Notes, Section 3)
Number of leavers rounded to the nearest 5

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