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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu May 27, 2010 1:33 am ]
Post subject:  Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10164999.stm

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Nearly half (45%) of final-year students at the UK's top universities view their career prospects as "very limited", a survey suggests.

The poll of 16,000 finalists found a third feared last year's graduates would take up most of the vacancies.

One in six said they would not have gone to university if they had known how tough the jobs market was going to be, the research by High Fliers found.

In total, 26% plan further study, 16% plan to travel and 14% are undecided.

The survey of finalists at 30 leading universities found just 36% expected to start or look for a graduate-level job after leaving university this summer.

And 8% intended to take up temporary or voluntary work.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Thu May 27, 2010 1:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
If it's 45% at the top uni's, then I'll bet that number is even higher for the more common uni's.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Thu May 27, 2010 6:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
Seems obvious to me that if everyone goes to uni and gets a degree, it devalues the qualification, and people will still end up in worthless jobs.
Author:  okenobi [ Thu May 27, 2010 7:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
HeatherKay wrote:
Seems obvious to me that if everyone goes to uni and gets a degree, it devalues the qualification, and people will still end up in worthless jobs.


Yet again, your common sense is obvious to some, yet clearly profound to others.

I also could have told them this years ago and consequently didn't fancy the debt and waste of time just to work in Asda.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu May 27, 2010 10:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
HeatherKay wrote:
Seems obvious to me that if everyone goes to uni and gets a degree, it devalues the qualification, and people will still end up in worthless jobs.

Yes the figures that Labour gave for the benefit of a degree (£400 000 over a lifetime) are already disappearing. I could never see the justification of so many getting a degree. In the US where many get degrees they end up having to be an unpaid intern for months in the hope of proving themselves worthy of a job. I cant see the coalition ending the farce. Too many middle class voters think that their little Tarquin or Jocasta is bright enough to go to Oxford or Cambridge, let alone end up in some office as an assistant.
Author:  dogbert10 [ Thu May 27, 2010 12:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
It would be interesting to see how this varies with the degree course being taken. After all, what sort of prospects does someone with a degree in American Studies compared to someone with a degree in Medicine?
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu May 27, 2010 2:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Graduates fear 'very limited' career prospects
dogbert10 wrote:
It would be interesting to see how this varies with the degree course being taken. After all, what sort of prospects does someone with a degree in American Studies compared to someone with a degree in Medicine?

Medical degrees are still in demand if not here elsewhere. Degrees with American studies probably have no more of a job premium than golf course management degrees. When fewer people got a degree then it marked you out as one of the elite, but now that 50% are getting them it does not mean much at all. Many employers started restricting graduate admissions to the top twelve universities more than a decade ago when the government ramped up university access. If you did not go to one of these top 12 universities you are simply wasting your time and money with some employers, who will not even consider you.
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