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To understand how job offers and graduates are correlated, bilateral Spearman's rank correlation coefficients were calculated.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results show that, in large groups of educational areas, exists a match between the higher education supply and the labour market needs, with an emphasis on the fields of \u201csocial sciences, business and law\u201d, \u201cengineering, manufacturing and construction\u201d and \u201chealth and welfare\u201d. However, at a more disaggregated level, a mismatch in the sub-areas of \u201cteacher training and education science\u201d and \u201ccomputing\u201d was found since labour market needs are much greater than graduates by HEIs and the two variables are moving in opposite directions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study has revealed important aspects that the educational policy should take into account in order to create the conditions for a gradual adjustment to the labour market needs. Also, the results demonstrate that some measures should be taken in short\/medium term to avoid problems in the medium\/long term.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>One implication of this empirical study was the elaboration of a correspondence table to standardise the data analysis units from two different sources. 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