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APPENDIX C: THE INTERVIEWEES

Brief study details and career aspirations of the interviewees.

No.

Type of

Degree

Subject

Career aspirations

1

Ordinary

Fine Arts

Wants to do child art therapy.

2

Honours

Studying to become primary school teacher

Wants to be a teacher.

3

Honours

Geophysics

Hopes for a job in this field.

4

Honours

English and Business

Wants to do "corporate troubleshooting".

5

Honours

Social Sciences

Wants to do post-graduate study then lecture.

6

Ordinary

Doing courses on small business.

Hoping to be self-employed in arts and crafts.

7

Honours

Psychology

Thinking of post-graduate study.

8

Honours

Japanese

Wants to be an English teacher in Japan.

9

Honours

Occupational therapy

Wants to be an occupational therapist.

10

Honours

Doing Social Work

Wants to do social work.

11

Honours

Politics and Sociology

Hoping to get on graduate scheme with a company.

12

Ordinary

Computer animation

Hoping for a job in this field.

13

Honours

Chemistry

Thinking about PhD.

14

Honours

Psychology

Wants be psychologist or life-coach.

15

Honours

Was Economics, now Languages

Wants to teach English as a second language.

16

Honours

Nutrition

Wants public health job in nutrition.

17

Honours

Criminology

Thinking of jobs in the Immigration Office.

18

Honours

Does not say what is being studied.

-

19

Honours

Forensic Chemistry

Wanted to be a forensic chemist.

20

Honours

Social work qualification

Want to be social worker.

21

Honours

Social Sciences specialising in psychology

Wants to do counselling.

22

Ordinary

Sociology

Hoping to work in a university, may be in special needs.

23

Honours

Civil Engineering

Going to be civil engineer.

24

Honours

Biology

Doing science degree to make himself "employable".

25

Honours

Immunology and Microbiology

Will probably go for laboratory job in NHS.

26

Honours

History and Politics

Looking to teach in secondary schools.

27

Honours

Social Sciences

Hoping to go into housing work.

28

Honours

Medicine

Going into medicine.

29

Honours

-

Working as a quantity surveyor.

30

Honours

English and Psychology

Might do a PhD or work with children.

31

Honours

Forensic and Analytical Chemistry

Will apply for PhD. Looking for a chemistry type job.

32

Honours

Social work

Wants to be a social worker.

33

Ordinary

Accounting and Business

Going to look for an entry level accountancy job.

34

Honours

Acting and performance arts

Would look for a job with a theatre company.

35

Honours

Environment and Heritage

Will look for a job in this field.

36

Honours

Pharmacology

Now going to do a PhD in Paediatric Epilepsy.

37

Honours

Primary education

Primary school teacher.

38

Honours

Sociology, English, Education

Wants to work with vulnerable adults.

39

Honours

Psychology and Sociology

Wants to teach in a college.

40

Honours

Psychology

Wants to teach and going to do a PGCE.

41

Honours

Social Sciences

Wants to do primary teaching or social services job.

42

Honours

Social Sciences

Wants to do primary teaching.

43

Ordinary

Single parent studying for general interest.

Been looking for a job in the heritage field.

44

Honours

Psychology and Sociology

Going to post-graduate study, aiming to be an educational psychologist.

45

Honours

Food, nutrition and health

Wants to be a home economics teacher.

46

Ordinary

Arts Social Sciences

Going into teaching.

47

Ordinary

Health Science

Wants to work in health promotion.

48

Honours

Psychology and Sociology

Interested in educational psychology.

49

Ordinary

Maths and Teaching

Wants to be a Maths teacher.

50

Honours

Applied Music

Currently doing a PGDE to be a music teacher.

51

Honours

Pharmacology

Science business job.

52

Honours

Child development

Educational social policy work.

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