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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gaby Hinsliff

We told young people that degrees were their ticket to a better life. It’s become a great betrayal

Illustration by Victoria Hart/Guardian Design

It’s boomerang season again. Or to put it another way, the time of year when adult children you imagined might be flying the nest come home instead to roost, a ritual that seems to happen earlier every year.

Though the university year isn’t formally finished yet, so many institutions are dumping written exams in favour of dissertations or online assessments (cheaper to run, apparently) that third years have started cutting their losses and their food bills by heading home not long after Easter. In a worrying number of cases, they’re leaving with no job to go to.

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