Is it worth going to university? That’s the question that many young people are questioning as student debts become increasingly unaffordable and the job market tougher.
Eleanor Wells graduated in 2020 with a degree in graphic design and communications but after years of part-time jobs – and £24,000 in debt – she now works in a completely different field and regrets even going.
After part-time jobs at a coffee shop and a gym, she now works at a facial aesthetics clinic in a role she feels she “can happily do for the next 40 years”.
“I don’t think everybody needs to go to uni,” she told The i Paper, adding that apprenticeships are a better way to prepare young people for the workforce, “but apprenticeships are scarce”.
University was ‘the only choice’
