Property News · March 18, 2018

Brain drain of graduates to London leaves cities facing skills shortage


Mayors and businesses call for action on young people quitting regions after completing degreesBritain’s regions are suffering a “brain drain” to London as about a third of departing graduates head to the capital each year, analysis has revealed. Ministers are under renewed pressure to tackle the stubbornly unbalanced map of Britain’s economy, with warnings that some big cities are left with serious skills shortages.Higher education data reveals that more than 100,000 of 2016’s graduates had left the region where they studied after just six months to take up work elsewhere. More than 30,000 ended up in London. The study, compiled by WPI Strategy group, found that in the East Midlands 55.5% of graduates left the area to find work shortly after graduating. While large numbers took jobs in London after studying in the south-east, 3,670 went there from the east of England, 3,410 from the south-west and 2,990 from the East Midlands. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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