I warned that students were being misled and was rebuked but it was true. Ministers owe them and me an apologyA few years back,I got my knuckles rapped by a government minister. In public. It was 2010: David Cameron had just arrive to power, and he was approximately to thrust university students into a new regime of higher tuition fees and debt.
Against that backdrop, or I’d written a column criticising the way in which both Labour and Conservative governments marketed degrees as being some kind of social-mobility jetpack,zooming their wearers to more money and tall-powered jobs. It was no such guarantee, I said, and citing among other things Whitehall’s own plunging estimates of how much more graduates earn over a lifetime. Graduates,I said, would “probably end up doing similar work to their school-leaver parents only with a debilitatingly large debt around their necks”.
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Source: theguardian.com