University = delaying the inevitable?

I can't help but feel a little discomforted about being at University at the moment.

Even our lecturer's are telling us that after we graduate, there will be no jobs for us to pay off the thousands of pounds of debt that we are in, even though the reason we are in debt is because we were trying to get a better job. Great, fabulous, thanks.


According to BBC News this morning, the swarm of 'New Age Universities' that offer a huge range of courses, will not benefit students graduating through the job crisis. Students graduating with a degree in Film Media Production from the University of Bedfordshire, for example, are less likely to get a job then a student with a degree in Politics and History from the University of York, because older Universities, apparently, look better on a CV.


However, i disagree. If you walk in to an interview, and are polite, ambitious, and have the right qualifications, you are more likely to impress your potential employee then the maths genius who has spent eight years in a dark room slaving away at their Masters degree with no social skills to show.

A degree from Oxford or Cambridge will always be impressive, but the practical experience and social skills that those of us at 'little' Universities learn, will stay with you forever.