A chara, – The headline on Carl O’Brien’s article on the findings of a socioeconomic analysis by the Higher Education Authority (“Affluent graduates earn more within months of leaving college”, Education, February 16th) should not come as a surprise to anybody.
The businesses that pay the best graduate rates are all very vocal about their diversity programmes.
They may well be diverse in certain visible ways but many strike me as lacking real socioeconomic diversity. A particular type of Dublin accent seems to prevail and more needs to be done to break the “class ceiling”.
The Government’s National Access Plan, aimed at boosting the participation of underrepresented groups in higher education, is part of the solution but our businesses need to do more.
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If they are serious about diversity, they need to put socioeconomic diversity at the forefront of their graduate recruitment policies. – Yours, etc,
REAMONN O’LUAN,
Churchtown,
Dublin 14.
