Only 3% of UK employers using Graduate Route

Posted date: 11 Jan 2023

Over a quarter of employers are not actually aware of the UK’s Graduate Route Visa allowing international students to work sponsor free for up to two years, according to a new policy note from the Higher Education Policy Institute.

In conjunction with Kaplan, HEPI surveyed 656 members of the Institute of Directors – an organisation for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs – and found 27% of those asked were not familiar with the scheme set up in 2021.

Just under half said that they were aware of its existence and haven’t utilised it, while only 3% had used it or were in the process of using it for the first time.

This is despite a crippling labour shortage in the UK, with three quarters of businesses responding to a CBI survey in October 2022 saying they had been impacted

Reference: https://thepienews.com/news/graduate-route-visa-hepi/

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