YEP Says: Students saddled with debt before life has really begun
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Yet that isn’t how it is at all for many young people.
Saddled with a hefty debt and discovering that, unlike previous generations, a degree does not mean a guaranteed job at the end of it, it’s suggested today that as much as a third of young people in Leeds say they regret going to university .
What a dismal, dismal shame - and one that must call to question current policies around higher education.
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Hide AdAlmost half of people aged between 18 and 35 said they felt they could have achieved their current status in life without a degree - and be significantly better off in the process.
The report follows a Sutton Trust report earlier this year which suggested, incredibly, that English university graduates faced the highest debts in the world, owing an average of £44,000 when they left university.
The Trust said it feared the abolition of maintenance grants this September would leave the poorest students with debts in excess of £50,000.
‘The cost of going to university has become so expensive that more young people should seriously consider higher level apprenticeships, preferably to degree level,’ it warned.
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Hide AdMillennials in Leeds estimate it will take them 12 years to pay off their student debt.
It’s no way to start a life, is it, plagued with worry about a future that has barely even begun?
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