Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 June 2024
82. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department has undertaken any research aimed at determining from which faculty graduates are most and least likely to emigrate. [27022/24]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe tertiary education and research system supports learners to achieve internationally recognised qualifications which prepare graduates for careers and further learning, both in Ireland and internationally.
The outcomes of higher education graduates, including outcomes relating to international mobility, are tracked through a number of sources.
The Higher Education Authority publishes data annually on early graduate destinations in the nine months after graduation, with graduates in employment broken down by Location of Employment and Field of Study.
Of the 2022 graduate cohort who were employed nine months after graduation, 93% were employed in Ireland and 7% overseas. Of these, arts and humanities graduates were the most likely to be employed overseas at 10.6%. It should be noted that these figures represent a point in time, and often migration can be temporary.
The Central Statistics Office has led on the development of the Educational Longitudinal Database which links education and graduate data with key administrative data from across government. This provides a mechanism to track long-term migration patterns including return dynamics.
To date, the Central Statistics Office have provided detailed reporting on health graduate outcomes over a ten year period following graduation. For the 2011 class of ‘nursing and midwifery’ and ‘medicine’ graduates just over one third of each cohort were likely to have moved overseas for at least one of the ten years following graduation. 14% of all medicine graduates and 10% of nursing and midwifery graduates were overseas for more than eight years during that time period.
