Graduates taking jobs

SIR – While I wouldn’t want to deter anyone from going to university, the director of City and Guilds (Letters, July 6) is right that we are training more graduates than we have graduate jobs and people should consider the alternatives seriously.

However, the problem is that the “excess” graduates apply for nongraduate jobs – and, with their higher qualifications, usually get them. The jobs then become graduate ones by default.

Sadly many people are spending three years running up a large debt to get a job that, not so long ago, they could have started after A-levels.