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Comment on Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds

puttybrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m not shocked, I went the apprenticeship route and I was able to get enough money together to buy a home last year after getting a job in my sector.

Meanwhile my partner went to uni and is doing manual labour work while renting out a room, they got their degree but they can’t find any work in their sector.

If I went to uni, I would probably would not have been in any state to be saving any kind of money

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Oneobi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a sad state of affairs. Education is the crux of society and them paywalling it by making it prohibitively expensive has been shocking.

Turning education into a business is a mistake.

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13esq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pretty much the same story for me.

Our generation has a problem where you’re told pretty much through the entirety of secondary school that “you need to do well here or you won’t get in to uni”, the underlying message being that you’re a failure if you don’t go to uni.

The result being that every man and his dog now has a degree the value of which is watered down hugely and 30,000 historians, artists, philosophers, , , wondering why they can’t land a job role in their chosen line of study.

Good for me, as no one wanting to learn a trade has definitely helped with my value in the job market, bad for people that were missold a dream by a generation boomers who “worked hard and achieved whatever they wanted”.

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