The British graduate labour market attracts much attention from the media as well as in policy circles. The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political
Discourses examines the extent to which these political and media discourses are congruent with the empirical realities. Tholen argues that the assumptions made by many policymakers and media
outlets regarding graduate work, skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational and labour market contexts. To demonstrate this, the book traces seven important
trends that currently shape the British graduate labour market and reveals that these seven trends and their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which
dominates media and policy discourses.
