Students 'graduating from university with poorly paid jobs'

Students risk being left in debt for decades after a study found many were leaving university with poorly paid jobs.
Just a day after vice-chancellors said they wanted tuition fees to more than double to over £6,000, new research.shows some students will earn little more than those getting a job straight from school or college. Students on arts and humanities courses - along with those failing to get at least an upper-second class degree - are most likely to miss out on the highest-paiIt comes despite Government claims that a degree "comfortably" adds more than £100,000 to students' lifetime earnings.The claims have been used to justify higher tuition fees, with students expected to share the burden of paying for university.Yesterday, it was revealed that vice-chancellors wanted the existing £3,100 fee to rise to around £6,500 to maintain decent teaching d jobs, said the Warwick University study.The conclusions were made despite claims that a similar increase would result in students accumulating debts of more than £32,000.In the latest study, the Warwick academics warned that "any substantial increase" in fees risked preventing teenagers from going to university, particularly those from poor backgrounds