Degree or not degree: Is university worth it financially?

People enter in to higher education for all sorts of reasons, many of which want to gain a high paying job at the end of the three years. This is the common conception of the out come of a university degree, indeed if this was not the case would so many people really spend all those thousands of pounds on it?

Today I read in the Guardian that a third of students who have started university since 1998 have not yet started repaying their loans.

This means that 10 years after finishing their degrees, many graduates are still earning LESS than 15k!

How is this possible?

Are modern graduates settling for menial, minimum wage jobs because they simply cannot be bother to fulfill their potential? Granted a small minority probably are-but the real problem is that today no company will give the graduate a chance in the real world.

Nowadays degrees are 'two a penny', and with so many being deemed 'mickey mouse' courses it's no surprise that they do not seem to be worth the paper that they are written on.

Employers would rather have someone who started at the bottom and knows the business rather than a novice with no other skills than being able to down a pint in two seconds! Students are also socially more immature than their peers who have been in full time work for three years.

Companies just don't have time for graduates. It does not make financial sense to hire them-they still have to be trained but unlike people without a degree they also expect a decent wage to do the training!

I'm not damning a good education, far from it. I 100% believe that being well educated is one of the most important attributes a person can have, yet from a financial perspective perhaps people who do not necessarily need to go to university should consider an apprenticeship or internship, before getting saddled with a loan they have no means of repaying and a long hard slog to get the wage they deserve.

And on another note, perhaps in our current economic climate the Government should think twice about getting more people into university and encouraging debts, especially those that can never, with all the will in the world, get paid off.

Singletons- Bridget is 'ruining' our families.

I love Bridget Jones.

She is the saviour of women and lets us no its ok to be normal. And by normal i mean to drink too much, to eat a whole packet of Christmas tree chocolates in one sitting, not be able to cook and to do mildly embarrassing things such as display our arses on live t.v. 

She lets us know that we are not alone in the world, that there are millions of other women like us, struggling along without a clear direction.

The Torys' view of Bridget

Bridget has recently come under fire from the Tory's for 'wanting too much'. Apparently she is to blame for today's women not getting married and 'destroying' the family . She has been to university and so it stands to reason that she wants to marry a man equally, if not more, educated. After all, why should she be the main provider??

More women are now going to university than men. Good on them.

The blame here is completely misplaced, rather than condemning women for wanting more, should we not be criticising men for settling for less??