Graduates and career guidance (FOI)

Request

With regard to Property prices that have clearly gone beyond the affordability of most young Islanders.

I would like to know the following:

A

What is the current know percentage of graduates who return to settle in Jersey after completing their Degree?

B

What Career advice is available for young people who have no choice but to leave Jersey and settle down elsewhere?

C

Finally what is the current mean age for a young person leaving Home in Jersey if known?

Response

A and B

Relevant information is not held to answer these questions.

B

Young people can access the careers advice service provided by Skills Jersey, regardless of their residential status. The careers service can talk to young people about their skills and values and look at how to research the area they are going to.

Further information about careers advice and guidance can be found at the following link:

Careers information from 16 to 24 years of age

Article applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information,

it must inform the applicant accordingly.