Graduate unemployment has risen to its highest level for 17 years

[MarillionFan]

I don't work in IT.

I'm a (Chartered) Engineer.

I also don't work in IT. I'm just a Gigolo.

[sasguru]

The skills shortage is real, you only have to observe some posters on here just to see ignorance. Lack of foreign lanugauges is an example,. One poster resorted to Babel Fish to translate a fairly straight forward German article and still didn't understand it.

Hmmm I suppose foreign languages are useful to those low-skilled itinerant jobbers who need to travel far and wide earning a pittance, rather than having an easy life earning the lucrative rewards available in the richest part of Europe, the City.

HTH

[shaunbhoy]

Hmmm I suppose foreign languages are useful

Yes, they are. But from your lowly perspective, you would be far better placed trying to grasp fundamentals like arithmetic, grammatical interpretation, and averages. Try not to run before you can walk.

HTH but IDI

[GreenLabel]

The skills shortage is real. One has only to observe CUK posters for a while to see how many cannot reason, cannot make judgements based on the balance of probabilities, are not familiar with using data to back up theories, cannot count, don't have basic social skills in the real world, don't know how science works etc. etc.
Of course these posters tend to be in the low paying/dead-end/dull roles - there's a reason for that.

That would explain why you've stuck around for close to 20,000 posts.

[d000hg]

Hmmm I suppose foreign languages are useful to those low-skilled itinerant jobbers who need to travel far and wide earning a pittance, rather than having an easy life earning the lucrative rewards available in the richest part of Europe, the City.

Of course if one wanted to talk to people where the real money is, like China and Japan, one might claim you are an idiot.

[Ignis Fatuus]

So skills shortage = willing to do work better than the British and at a lower cost.

Is there a bit missing from this sentence? I am having some trouble with it.

[TimberWolf]

I wanted to be one of those.

Sadly, I lost the will to live halfway through filling in the application form.

It's not all boring.


IGMC

[thunderlizard]

Of course 2010 is the year by which the Labour government wanted to achieve the 50% rate for further education. It's not that the "like-for-like" graduate unemployment rate has gone up - it's more that the "graduate rate" has gone up.

[sasguru]

Of course if one wanted to talk to people where the real money is, like China and Japan, one might claim you are an idiot.

Ah so the real money is in China and Japan.
So all that money in the City is fake.
And I didn't even notice. My bad.
jeez has someone opened a moron school specially for Cukkers?

[shaunbhoy]

Ah so the real money is in China and Japan.
So all that money in the City is quantitatively eased
And I didn't even notice. My bad.
jeez has someone opened a moron school specially for Cukkers?

FTFY