Working at small businesses offers good opportunities for promotion and a good work-life balance, according to employment organisation Graduate Prospects.

The group's chief executive, Mike Hill, noted that graduate training schemes were not the be-all and end-all, with most graduates not going down this route.

"The great majority of graduates are never going to get on them and don't want to get on them," he said.

Instead, many graduates get a good start to their working life at smaller firms.

Mr Hill continued: "It can be more beneficial. Being a big fish in a small pond is very beneficial – you can have a better work-life balance, the opportunities to promotion are much quicker, and depending on the size of the organisation, it is likely that you can very rapidly turn your hand to all sorts of things that might not be available to you in a larger organisation."

According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, there were 2.48 million students in higher education in the UK last year.

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