A record number of graduates are planning to leave the UK, driven not by wanderlust but by frustration. A new graduate recruitment survey finds that 10 per cent of this year’s university leavers are actively considering emigration as they confront what recruiters describe as the worst graduate jobs market in three decades. Only 27 per cent have secured employment so far this year. Four years ago, there were around 180,000 graduate vacancies posted on the Reed recruitment website. Last year, there were just 50,000. Meanwhile, applications have doubled. For many young people, the maths is becoming impossible to ignore.

Australia remains the runaway favourite destination. Higher starting salaries, a less congested housing market and a straightforward skilled migration system have long attracted British graduates – not to mention the........

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