A leading Essex business organisation has delivered a stinging attack on the surplus of graduates struggling to find jobs.
The criticism by the Essex branch of the Institute of Directors(IoD) follows surveys showing many graduates have been forced to take jobs they are vastly over-qualified for.
"This is the result of false hopes raised by a wrong-headed belief that a degree is a passport to the best jobs," said IoD branch chairman Nicholas Cook.
He was scathing in his dismissal of Government targets for a 50 per cent graduate level and added: "What about the rest? They have been neglected when they could, and should, have been trained in the skills we really need."
Published Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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