It's easy, I guess, to focus on the shambolic in-fighting of the Labour Party in these interesting times, and besides this entertaining sideshow, most people's ire, when talking party politics, tends to focus on the terrible
economic legacy foisted upon the nation by Labour's last disastrous administration.
However, another long held and oft quoted bugbear of mine is their equally disastrous education legacy - useless comprehensive schools, so-called "grade inflation" to make our ever more poorly educated kids look better (for politicians' sake, not the kids') and of course, universities chock-full of kids who really shouldn't be there (and wouldn't have been there back in the grant-maintained days of 1997), getting themselves £30k in debt or more before they even start work, only to find their very expensively-obtained degree (in both monetary and lost time terms when they could've be learning something useful and marketable), is actually either useless and/or unwanted by their employers.
Take a look at this from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; it makes for sorry reading:
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The majority of UK university graduates are working in jobs that do not require a degree, with over-qualification at "saturation point", a report claims.
Overall, 58.8% of graduates are in jobs deemed to be non-graduate roles, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
It said the number of graduates had now "significantly outstripped" the creation of high-skilled jobs.
The CIPD said the report's findings should be a "a wake-up call".
"The assumption that we will transition to a more productive, higher-value, higher-skilled economy just by increasing the conveyor belt of graduates is proven to be flawed," said Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD, the professional body for human resources managers.
'Simply wasted'
The report found the issue was leading to "negative consequences" including employers requesting degrees for traditionally non-graduate roles despite no change to the skills needed for the role.
As a result, it found graduates were now replacing non-graduates in roles and taking jobs where the demand for graduate skills was either non-existent or falling.
The trend was particularly prominent in construction and manufacturing sectors where apprenticeships have previously been traditional routes into the industry, the report found.
Mr Cheese said that in many cases the "skills premium" graduates had "if it exists at all" was being "simply wasted".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-33983048Gah. Labour's DEGREE = GOOD idiotic over-simplification, as per, costing our young people, and the country dear. Idiots.