“People who do humanities degrees and social science degrees get jobs at about exactly the same rate as science graduates,”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Professor Gardner's claim is a fair call. Employment rates, covering either full-time or part-time work, for humanities and social science graduates are roughly the same as those for science graduates. Census data for 25-34 year-olds with a bachelor degree shows that 94.7 per cent of science graduates had a job in 2016. For humanities and social science graduates, depending on the definition used, employment rates ranged from 94.4 per cent to 95.8 per cent. Experts also recommended data from ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Margaret Gardner (Chair of the group of eight universities) made this claim around 7 October 2020. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 19 November 2020, 43 days later. Its rating was “Fair call”.
Where the claim appeared
- abc.net.auhttps://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/governments-university-reform/127…
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.