Are university degrees a waste of money? Feat. Tom Skinner, JJ Anisiobi & Lin Mei | Storm Huntley
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- The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has revealed that 60% more students are considering apprenticeships and non-traditional routes into the working world rather than paying for a degree.
The cost of which is at least £27,000, and for most students this is paid for by taking out a student loan, leaving them with thousands of pounds of debt to pay back when they start work.
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Student loans don't count as real debt, not like a normal loan, credit card or a mortgage. University gave me the skills and confidence to launch my career and play the game my way. I didn't necessarily get that from my course, but from everything else I was involved with while studying.
I didn't go to university I did a carpentry apprenticeship. My best friend went to university and did a business degree. By the time he'd left college with his degree and debt, I was able to have mortgaged a house and renovated it because I'd continuously been paid. However whilst he was at university house prices rose significantly and unfortunately he wasn't able to qualify for a mortgage as his degree didn't secure the highly paid career he'd intended. I now debt free own a few houses that I've renovated and over the last 12yrs my best friend and his wife and children have been my tenants. He doesn't think he'll ever be able to afford his own house.
I'm 83, left school at 15 and took on a 5 year apprenticeship as a jig and tool maker which included day release to tech college for a City and Guilds Certificate.
In 1969 I went overseas as a volunteer to Northern Nigeria. That was the start of a 50 year career working in development aid in 7 developing countries in Africa and Asia which included 15 years with the United Nations.
I retired in 2018 from 20 years in Cambodia where I was GM with a small British engineering INGO.
All my work has involved hands-on engineering activities, not behind a desk as a pen pusher.
When I was briefed for my post with the UN a senior official questioned why I was being employed as I did not have a university degree? Another official replied: "We are employing this man because we want someone to do the job not just talk about it".
Graduated in 2006 and spent the next 4 years unemployed and rejected for jobs because of lack of experience. Couldn’t even get a shop job. I got my breakthrough by lying on my CV to get my first experience. Even after getting experience it’s a numbers game in trying to get a job as you’re competing with 10 others at the interview stage for one job and there will always be that one person who does better even when you think you did the perfect interview. In 15 years I went to about 200 interviews and applied for thousands of jobs. I lost my 20s and 30s to this while others started to have families houses and cars of their own. I was still trying to get off the ground. Now I’m made to be content in the job I have now. I can’t be bothered doing the whole career thing because I don’t want to torture myself going through interviews anymore.
I still have flashbacks of my unemployment years. They broke me and at one point I wanted to set my degree on fire.
I’m a solicitor so needed a degree. Wouldn’t have done one otherwise would have just worked.
I have MBBS degree still jobless in uk for 4 year
Honestly some degrees are and will never lead to a career.
I would have saved a lot of money taking online courses and finding volunteering opportunities (eventually leading to paid work), rather than an Arts degree.
What volunteering would you have done. I'm probably a bit younger than you, and failed my A Levels 😂😱😢😢
One thing you guys always fail to mention is global mobility.
It is REALLY beneficial to have a degree if you want to work abroad especially in the Middle East, America and East Asia. In Japan you literally have no chance of ever working there as a foreigner if you don’t have a degree.
However having worked in tertiary I can assure that not all overseas qualifications are actually comparable. Nursing is one example.
The apprenticeship schemes give you a platform to go into all sorts of careers, that talk of narrowing options is nonsense. There are so many transferable skills you pick up which work across all sorts of jobs and industries
That’s because apprenticeships are competency based involving theory as well as practical components.
Psychology was the most popular degree taken for years. What are all those graduates doing?
Consultants probably
@@DaveSeville-sf1ku or patients themselves lol
Oooof thats cheeky haha did u study that
@@DaveSeville-sf1ku nope I’m a retired registered nurse but have met more than my fair share.
@@christinefiedor3518 Ahh lovely yeah theres loads of psychology graduates here in the Uk lol I have met a few too :)
Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering, Doctor (medicine) are degrees worth having. English Politics, and History are for career politicians and TV presenters. The rest are low value and not wealth creating for the UK.
I have an issue with school leavers going straight into politics degrees. They need work and life experience first as they focus on keeping their jobs which is not really in keeping with what’s best for the country. This is partly why the country is in such a mess. Going into politics should be a reward for a successful career a life experience.
@@christinefiedor3518 Totally agree. All political parties have career politicians, who have no work or life experience. We would have a much balanced country if this was the case.
Uk need EU workers