Are forensic science degrees up to scratch?
15 October 2009 Skills for Justice, the sector skills council for justice and community safety, has this week published a report on the standard of Forensic Science and Crime Scene degree provision across the UK, which has concluded that Universities need to work much more closely with employers to ensure degrees are relevant to employers’ needs. The report, ‘Forensic Science and Crime Scene Degrees in the UK’ is the result of investigative research we carried out this year into the types of degree programmes available. We conducted this research specifically because employers, such as Police Forces from across the UK and commercial Forensic Science providers, have been telling us that many of the courses aren’t producing job-ready graduates. The numbers of students studying Forensic Science or Crime Scene degrees has increased from 2,191 in 2002-03 to 5,664 in 2007-08 yet this hasn’t prepared more people for employment in the world of Forensic Science. One employer said that, “There a
