UCU comment on highest level of graduate unemployment for 17 years

UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Graduates are facing an increasingly competitive job market and leaving university with record levels of debt. We believe there all sorts of benefits from a university education. However, the government cannot make a case for increased contributions from graduates, students or their parents based on specious graduate pay premiums.
 
'Graduates are an investment in our country's future and the fear is that an uncertain job market, coupled with the government's obsession over earnings, will turn talented people away from university, which is not what the UK needs if we are to become a high-skill high-wage economy.'