Più di 600.000 laureati rivendicano benefici
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/more-than-600000-graduates-are-claiming-benefits-sl59dfrzg
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
Più di 600.000 laureati rivendicano benefici
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/more-than-600000-graduates-are-claiming-benefits-sl59dfrzg
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
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Of course they used a picture of non-white graduates. Can’t imagine what they are implying.
If you like bar graphs, line graphs:
[Universities UK – Insights and Analysis – Graduate Outcomes – July 2025](https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/insights-and-analysis/graduate-outcomes-what-latest-data)
It’s not surprising, a degree doesn’t guarantee a job and can even make it harder to get minimum wage jobs. Even if a degree improves your chances of getting jobs in a specific field, in total net jobs that will hire you it’s probably a net loss for general employability.
According to the article … *The median real-terms salary for graduates aged under 65 was £26,500, the study found*
That’s barely more than 40 hours a week at minimum wage . Which is £25.2k
Would like to ser the split of age, subjects they studied, grades they got, and regions they live in.
As a relatively recent STEM graduate I’d always been told this sort of thing was only a problem for those who do ‘soft’ degrees but speaking to friends from my course it’s really really not. There’s a massive shortage of graduate positions.
So many companies are simply choosing to offshore as much of their workforce as possible. It’s cheaper in the short term and they have less employment rights
I’m not trying to say what I did is better, it’s stereotypically the “harder” route to go, but I’m kinda glad I dropped out of college and started working. I’m now nearly a decade into my working life, I’ve been through the bullshit jobs at minimum wage and now earn a comfortable wage at a job i thoroughly enjoy. It feels so backwards that im doing significantly better than some of my friends who finished college, went to uni, came away with genuinely good grades and are now either unemployed or working minimum wage jobs that might not lead to a career. A few have started businesses or are on their way to finishing specific courses to improve their career like a friend I have who works in biochemistry, but they are regardless almost all on minimum wage with the exception of my mate who started his own telecoms company and is also one of the smartest people I know.
As people have said already: when you can drop out of college and end up on a better salary, earlier on in life than by going to uni the system is fundamentally broken. I was always told my choice was the harder of the two and that I’d be working my ass off to get anywhere. Feels the other way around now.
A degree is now a luxury unless you have a clearly defined career path. Most courses dont have any direct job openings other than becoming a teacher in that subject.
studied a “soft” subject at uni cause it’s the sort of thing I found life affirming and I had a lovely time exploring it with people who equally loved it. should’ve done a miserable degree entirely unsuited to me like my mate who did physics, hated it, and still can’t find a job