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Students and graduates feel ethnicity is the main cause of job discrimination, according to new research.

Graduate recruitment website Milkround Online conducted a poll among students and new graduates asking whether they felt they had faced discrimination in the workplace.

A worrying 81 per cent of those questioned felt that they had.

49 per cent of those surveyed said they had been faced with ethnic prejudice and 13 per cent felt the discrimination was age-related.

Issues involving disability, gender, religion and sexual orientation made up the remainder of the concerns expressed.

Richard Chapman of Diversity Milkround, an associated site aimed at tackling discrimination in the graduate workplace, commented: "Ethnic prejudice is clearly still a worrying problem in the corporate world.

"With globalisation and increasing cross-cultural networking it is important for employers to encourage and respect ethnic minority and foreign candidates in order to further promote their company in the international market."

The survey involved 100 site users, half male and half female.