Bar chart 2 (Cam 10/T3)

The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-time work did after leaving college in 2008

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts compare the action of graduates and postgraduates in the UK after leaving colleges in 2008, excluding full-time work.

It is clear that there were more students who chose further study after graduating, while the numbers for volunteers is the lowest in both graduate and postgraduate students categories.

The number of graduates who went on to further study is the most significant, with about nearly 30.000 students. However, the number of students doing voluntary work is the smallest, just 3500 in 2008. The figures for students who worked part-time and who were unemployed were about the same levels, which were 17735 and 16235 respectively.

The trends for further study people and volunteers could also be seen in the postgraduate student category. Postgraduates preferring higher education were about nine times higher than those who volunteered, standing at 2725 and 345 respectively. The figures for part-time workers in the postgraduate category were just a little smaller than those for further study folk, at 2535 students. The number of unemployed postgraduate students in 2008 was 10 times smaller than graduates who did not have jobs, at 1625 students.