What’s happened?
Last month Rishi Sunak took aim at poor-quality and low-value degree courses that he claimed were “ripping off” young Britons, and producing no return for the taxpayer. Too many young Brits “are sold a false dream of going to university only to find they’re enrolled on low-quality courses that don’t offer the skills they need to get a decent job at the end of it”, claims the prime minister. As evidence, he cites Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) research which found that one in five of graduates don’t earn enough over the course of their career to compensate
