Who, apart from the very wealthy, could bring themselves to go to university these days? Three years of mostly less-than adequate teaching, a lot of it on Zoom, an uncertain at best transition into the workplace and a whacking great loan that you’ll spend the next 40 years repaying isn’t exactly the most tantalising proposition.
Even in my day, twentysomething years ago, unless you were being heavily subsidised by your parents, university was a financial nightmare. We all worked all the way through our courses, often missing lectures as a result. Life in London was completely unaffordable for us and we all left crippled with debt.
