Treasury ‘does not understand graduate-earnings data’

Former education secretary Justine Greening says analysis of graduate outcomes is ‘too narrow’

There is a “lack of understanding” in government about graduate-outcome datasets and the way in which they should be used to inform policy, a former education secretary has said.

Graduate-earnings data have increasingly come to the fore as the government has sought to make sure that university courses deliver ‘value for money’ for students.