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

Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional world 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. Continue reading...