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Are there too many university graduates?

We know that all jobs and occupations are necessary .... but are not there too many people with university graduates and there's lack of other kind of occupations like manpower and students of vocational training? Is not a fact that are philologists, sociologists more than enough and are wanted "real workers" like electricians , plumbers , bricklayers, cooks....? ----To Ricardo Grande---- Yes, i have said that university graduates are neccesary, but in more less quantify that there are nowadays, above all in certain degrees(we don't need lots and lots of philologics, BBA but we really need lots of electricians and kinda of workers....anyway... doctors and teachers are more useful than other degrees) About "real workers" hahaha , my god i knew that someone was felt annoyed for this.... I know that i exaggerate a little , but this way i expresse better what i refer to.Realling working, working is for me is to do a tangible and productive work , something that gives results and "make a country progresses".Sociologits only write, raise hypothesis but not do an "authentic work " in the way i understand. :)

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I think you are correct. I know many, many people who have gotten their college degree (associates, bachelors, masters) and now cannot find a job in their field. One such person has a degree in psychology and is now working at a gas station... Two problems: One is that nobody wants to do the other types of jobs like plumbers or electricians and two it doesn't really pay much so that isn't someone's first choice for a job. We are no longer in the industrial age, but we still need industry focused employees...not everyone can be working with the technology!
yes. soon no one can repair a car.
I don't think so - far fewer than half the population has a university degree and the way the economy has shifted in the United Kingdom and throughout the developed world has been towards service-related jobs that require advanced communicative and other skills that you learn at university. That's why it doesn't matter (for the most part) what you major in, lots of employers just want someone with a degree. Unfortunately, this has had the effect of making people think they HAVE to get a degree to be competitive, which isn't true. Learning non-university skills where I come from in the United States (like being an electrician or a plumber) is a fast way to making more money than most college graduates will ever make. Having said that, one of the (many) differences between the developed and developing worlds is the educational infrastructure that we have in place in the developed world. Discouraging people from going to college could undermine our own economies in the long run. Also, I object the idea that sociologists aren't "real workers" as stated in the question. There is the belief that working with your mind isn't work, which is ridiculous. It may not be as physically exhausting, but that doesn't mean it isn't work.
Yep. I'm not knocking the value of a good well rounded liberal arts education. It's not just about preparing for the job market. However, these days everyone and their dog wants a white collar career, and there just aren't enough jobs for them, unless they start creating B.S. jobs for themselves. Meanwhile there aren't enough skilled tradespeople, and those are good well paid jobs too. People should consider both kinds of education, like a year or two of a liberal arts program, then switch to trade school.
For this reason government opened borders people from abroad, someone has to do jobs for well educated citizen of your country :) so no racism here, theses people are needed :) I don't know if you are from UK but if from economical point of view there was more Uni Graduates than necessery than government would make Unis to be financed from students pockets like it is in US, till then we know that in UK answer is NO :)
Yes there are, basically. But the problem isn't with too many graduates, but with the degrees themselves I think. The problem started with Labours push a while back to get everyone into higher education. That massively expanded the degree base and now you can get degrees in almost every subject imaginable. Jobs that 10 years ago wouldn't have had a degree, but required you to work up the ranks, now have degree courses attached to them, and you can get degrees in everything from football studies to accounting. It's ridiculous, and it has devalued the true academic subjects. I have two degrees, one in criminal psychology and one in Nursing, and believe me, I'm hardly anything special in this day and age. Degrees are the new a levels.
Well it's hard to say. More university graduated means more higher education people. We need these people to become doctors, lawyers, and to have jobs like those.
Your dead right there Creativa, there's far too many useless 'ologists out there. Most of them haven't an ounce of common sense because that isn't taught at university.