[Margaret Pilkington]

I think it is wrong to try to get more young people to go into further education.....a university degree isn't the be all and end all in life.
Success should not be measured by whether you achieved a university education.......it should be measured by the usefulness of your own life.
Not all jobs require a degree.
We raise the expectations of our children, we tell them get an education and you will get a job..it doesn't always work like that.(especially if your chosen degree cannot be supported by work in the area you chose to study)
My advice to youngsters would be find a job...any job. find out what it is like to work for a living...even if that means punching a clock card.
If you don't know what career path to take then it is useless to do some Mickey Mouse degree course, purely so that you can say you have a degree.
Find something you like doing...then get someone to pay you for it, and you will have a happy life.
You don't stop learning just because you have left school.