The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has published Higher Education Outcomes – Health Graduates 2020 Destination Outcomes. This new publication analyses the destinations of health graduates in terms of employment and re-enrolment in education in Ireland and analyses graduates’ migration patterns over the last decade using administrative data.
What Do Health Graduates Do?
Almost all Irish medicine graduates, who graduated in 2011, were in 'substantial employment' in Ireland in their first year after graduation. This fell to 80% two years after graduation and 65% after 10 years.
Approximately 16% of medicine graduates were ‘not captured’ two years after graduation increasing to 25% after ten years.
Nearly 80% of Irish nursing and midwifery graduates, who graduated in 2011, were in 'substantial employment' in Ireland one year after graduation and after ten years.
Around 8% of nursing and midwifery graduates were ‘not captured’ in their first year after graduation, increasing to 20% after five years and falling to 15% after ten years.
The destination outcomes are defined in the Background Notes and are available for all higher education graduates in a previous release.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has published Higher Education Outcomes – Health Graduates 2020 Destination Outcomes. This new publication analyses the destinations of health graduates in terms of employment and re-enrolment in education in Ireland and analyses graduates’ migration patterns over the last decade using administrative data.