Secondary education: roles for doctoral graduates

‘What Do Researchers Do?' Doctoral graduate destinations and impact three years on (2010) shows that 6% of UK-employed doctoral graduates were in the ‘other education' sector (which includes secondary education), three and a half years after graduation, compared to 5% six months after graduation.

In general, doctoral graduates wishing to work in the sector should expect to take a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.

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

• Chemists and physicists
• Editors
• Education officers
• Science and engineering technicians
• Secondary teachers
• Social science, arts and humanities researchers
• Statisticians
• University and higher education lecturers