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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor

Shitij Kapur sitting on a sofa in his office
Shitij Kapur, vice-chancellor of King's College London, in his office in Melbourne House. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

The UK now has a “surfeit” of graduates and students must accept that a university degree is no longer a “passport to social mobility”, a leading vice-chancellor has argued.

Prof Shitij Kapur, the head of King’s College London, said the days when universities could promise that their graduates were certain to get good jobs are over, in an era where nearly half the population enters higher education.

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