Further education: roles for doctoral graduates

‘What Do Researchers Do?' shows that 6% of UK-employed doctoral graduates were in the ‘other education' sector, which includes FE, three and a half years after graduation, compared to 5% six months after graduation.

Doctoral graduates from recent years are known to have worked in the sector in the following profiled roles:

• Academic librarians
• Education officers
• Further education teaching professionals
• Registrars and senior administrators of educational establishments
• Secondary school teachers