I laureati nel Regno Unito affrontano il peggior mercato del lavoro dal 2018 tra l’Ai, afferma davvero
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jun/25/uk-university-graduates-toughest-job-market-rise-of-ai
di psychosikh
I laureati nel Regno Unito affrontano il peggior mercato del lavoro dal 2018 tra l’Ai, afferma davvero
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jun/25/uk-university-graduates-toughest-job-market-rise-of-ai
di psychosikh
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The OECD has found that England has the highest proportion of overqualified workers among the 31 countries surveyed. Specifically,37%of workers in England are considered overqualified for their current jobs, exceeding the OECD average of 23%. This means nearly two in five workers in England hold qualifications above the level typically required for their roles.
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/university-england-overqualified-report-jobs-b2661856.html#:~:text=Nearly%20two%20in%20five%20(37,OECD%20countries%2C%20with%20data%20available](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/university-england-overqualified-report-jobs-b2661856.html#:~:text=Nearly%20two%20in%20five%20(37,OECD%20countries%2C%20with%20data%20available).
To those posting that we need to give more grants and loans out, it is simply unfeasible currently and does not look to be getting any better. The simple truth is, fewer people should go to uni, we need fewer universities in general, grants and loans should only go to those truly academically gifted, not 50% of the population, 50% of which will never pay it back.
Higher Education needs a rethink, Uni should not be pushed on to children, but integrated into adults working lives, so they can upskill in relevant skills during their lifetime. Uni places need to be based on what are the requirements of the country and job market.
University is now a lifestyle choice and for a huge chunk of people has nothing at all to do with learning skills for a job.
I’m not even necessarily saying that as a criticism, it’s just a fact and issues with over-qualification are an obvious consequence.
Inevitably this thread will fill up with opinions about how useless it is to go to university. I couldn’t disagree more.
We want a nice educated populace. People spending an extra 3 years learning how to validate evidence, form arguments and gain resilience to fallacies can only benefit this country.
Universal basic income is definitely on the way, imagine stewing on just enough money to live and never having a job by design while a.i does all the jobs. A whole new underclass.
Primark has just got rid of every single cashier in the mcr city centre store, now its 20 ish self serves and one person watching them.
Good job the trades are all extremely out of fashion then
University is not a ‘training facility’. It is an academic institution whose purpose is to encourage and create critical thinkers whilst also studying a field that may lead to future research and further human knowledge.
Unfortunately, too many past governments have seen it as an extension of college or apprenticeship and think you (need to) go to University to become an electrician or nurse, for example. This because of the huge push to see it as ‘normal’ that all school leavers head into higher education. This leaves a *skill* shortage in the essential trades,as well as over expectations by parents and students alike.
Another issue is the elimination of important academic programs, such as history, philosophy, the humanities in general (unless they are ‘trending’) and basically any subject that does not have a ‘work skill’ attached.
All uni did for me was create 60k debt which increases every year due to the insane interest rates. My fault for choosing a niche subject which I ended up hating by the end of the course.
It isn’t AI it’s off shoring jobs to Eastern Europe, India and Asia that’s stunting employment in a lot of sectors.
IT, Software, Call centres etc aren’t all being replaced by AI (which as someone who uses it daily CANNOT replace a web dev let alone a software engineer) they’re just being offshored to cheaper labour abroad.
I graduated in 2008 and the jobs market then was diabolical. My career is behind those who graduated over the next 3 years because they had much easier times getting a foot in the door.
AI reached a tipping point in the last few months, now it *is* good enough to replace a tonne of entry-level coding jobs. One experienced dev who knows what prompts they need to write can now replace a tonne of less experienced software developers.
It’s the experience that’s key, because the actual hard skill of “being able to code” is no longer as valuable. Being able to orchestrate, design and validate what the AI creates is valuable.
I work in AI implementation consultancy. It has nothing to do with AI. Indeed are just chasing headlines.
University offers a different outlook and looks good on a CV, but it’s more a lifestyle thing now. Apprenticeship are impossible to get. Realistically you need to work as soon as you leave school, or go to uni and have an almost full time job on side. The only way you get a job is if u have experience of which most people don’t as simply Htf can u get experience if you don’t have experience?! Worse thing when companies ask for experienced staff for a simple job. It’s now who you know rather than what skills you offer, unless its super niche.