University leavers face a perfect storm: general economic uncertainty, competition from AI, the erosion of the graduate premium - and bad government policy choices that look set to get even worse... There has been plenty of commentary today around new data published by the recruitment website, Adzuna. These headlines were typical: “Graduate job vacancies drop … Continue reading What’s really behind the slump in graduate job vacancies?
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The real ‘black hole’ is in public sector productivity
The Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, once famously said that “productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything”. If so, the UK has a huge problem – and that problem is particularly acute in the public sector. Official estimates released last week suggest that public service productivity was an astonishing 8.5 … Continue reading The real ‘black hole’ is in public sector productivity
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