Compensate graduates for not finding work

I STRONGLY support the return of university fees for those who can pay them. Even the less well-off should also pay a little. No one must be allowed to sit out the recession at university at taxpayers’ expense.

The sickening cliches about educating people for jobs now amounts to no more than a lie. In this respect, universities must be rigorously held to account for the quality of their courses, lecturing staff, and above all, the persistent failure of their graduates to find appropriate work. If universities served graduates as well as their own out-dated cotteries, the economy would be much better off.

As paying fees just to be an unemployed immigrant would be unfair to students, the universities must compensate students for not finding work. As graduate unemployment has been high for a long number of years, I would go further in ordering the universities to repay the vast majority of funds thrown at them by taxpayers since the sorry inception of free fees 13 years ago. This dim-witted experiment did little for either university standards or class equality. If anything, there was a marked decline in both.