Graduates being given false hope

Further to Douglas Murray’s article last week on universities, I have friends and relatives with children who have been to university but none seems to get a job related to their degree.

My grandson’s girlfriend has a degree in law but found that to make use of it, she had to become an unpaid intern. That meant working for free while having to pay for food, transport and rent for at least a year. She now works in a cafe to make a living.

The son of a friend of mine has a degree in history that is not used, as he could not find employment in that field. He now has a business selling sports equipment. I know of another graduate who is now a policeman.

My wife and I are both 11-plus failures. I got an electrical apprenticeship in a steelworks and later worked for a machinery manufacturer as a troubleshooter, travelling around the world. My wife later trained in accountancy and ended up as a managing director of a company.

Both of us have had problems with university graduates who have wonderful theoretical ideas that simply do not work, as they have no practical experience.

John Grove, Sheffield