Absolutely agree. I'm fed up with seeing a whole swathe of 'degree' coures in what many years ago would have been a work-based apprenticeship. Hospitality and

Absolutely agree. I'm fed up with seeing a whole swathe of 'degree' coures in what many years ago would have been a work-based apprenticeship. Hospitality and event organising, outdoor activities leadership and so on. And does the world really need quite so many qualified psychology graduates? Or, for that matter, English Literature? Why, exactly, are we paying for these courses? I was doing some grocery shopping a few months back. The young guy at the tills was talking about saving up to go and do something-or-other with his University friends. Three years of expensive education and a large debt, and he's landed in a job you can get at 16 if you can nearly count. That said, I was already rapidly concluding that degrees were of questionable value even before the recent fee change (not exactly a tripling of the financial burden because of the very different repayment model and possibility for writeoffs, but still...). I'm still not at all convinced that there is value added to your career prospects by delaying employment by 3 years and accruing a rough year's gross salary debt. I don't doubt it makes the first job easier to get at 21 than it would be by 18 but I've seen no evidence it makes a substantial difference by 25. If you want to go to Univeristy, do it and enjoy it. But for a whole swathe of jobs it's a long way from the meal ticket that it's painted as being.