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Margaret Gardner

Chair of the group of eight universities. 1 claim checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2020 to 2020. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check19 Nov 2020AustraliaEconomy and jobs
Margaret Gardner, Chair of the group of eight universities

“People who do humanities degrees and social science degrees get jobs at about exactly the same rate as science graduates,”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Fair call

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: 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 2…