Earlier this month, the Association of Graduate Recruiters reported that the number of graduate positions had decreased by 25%, with 48 graduates competing for each post and starting salaries frozen.
Now Gordon Brown promises to provide up to 10,000 extra university places to accommodate increasing demand fuelled by recession and rising unemployment. Perhaps the recession will be a distant memory by the time the additional students graduate and there will be degree-level posts for all. Or perhaps this idea is as short-term as the contracts of the academics likely to be employed to teach them, and simply a way to keep more people off the unemployment lists.
Now Gordon Brown promises to provide up to 10,000 extra university places to accommodate increasing demand fuelled by recession and rising unemployment. Perhaps the recession will be a distant memory by the time the additional students graduate and there will be degree-level posts for all. Or perhaps this idea is as short-term as the contracts of the academics likely to be employed to teach them, and simply a way to keep more people off the unemployment lists.
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