The spatial impacts of the HE-related migration of UK school leavers - Professor Tony Champion

Описание: This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 18 April at 12:00 UK Time. Professor Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University presented, "The spatial impacts of the HE-related migration of the UK’s school leavers: Evidence from two sources”.

Title: The spatial impacts of the HE-related migration of the UK’s school leavers: Evidence from two sources

Abstract: The rise in higher-education participation rates and the tradition of 'going away to university' has resulted in HE-related migration becoming the single largest component of internal migration for the UK migration. It has inserted a new dimension into the life course of many school leavers, involving place-to-place flows that are considerably different from when the vast majority went straight into the labour market. This seminar reports on the findings of analysing this phenomenon using two separate datasets, neither of which is perfect but potentially allowing a degree of triangulation for checking the main features. The official mid-year population estimates allow comparison of the numbers of 16-18 with 19-21 year olds, revealing the local authorities which gain and lose most from 'going away to university' movement. Secondly, the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) enables the tracking of UK school leavers to university and then onto the subregion where they are working 15 months after graduation, such that the spatial impacts can be gauged in terms of both the numbers involved and the quality of human capital as measured via students' secondary-education Tariff Score and their type of job post-graduation. Each GOS respondent can be classified on the basis of their migration trajectories between domicile and workplace, enabling a set of migration accounts to be produced for each subregion. These demonstrate how the different places fare as a result of the migration of students/graduates, with more sub-regions suffering the 'double whammy' of losing out in both quantitative and qualitative terms than gaining from this process, with challenging implications for central government's current 'levelling-up' agenda.

Speaker: Tony Champion is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University. His research interests include migration and its impact on population distribution and composition, with particular reference to counter-urbanization in developed countries. He chaired the IBG Working Group on Migration in Britain, which led to the publication of Migration Processes and Patterns (1992) and the IUSSP Working Group on Urbanization, which led to New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy (2004). He was President of the British Society for Population Studies 2013-2015 and co-editor (with Jane Falkingham) of Population Change in the United Kingdom (2016). His more recent and current research topics include the 'escalator region' effect in England, the role of migration in shaping the socio-demographic profile of British cities, the relationship between migration and commuting in England, long-term trends in migration rates (including the effect of COVID-19) and the local impacts of the UK's university-related migration.


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