Yes - too many going to uni

All the dud universities should be shut down - these days anyone and their dog can get into university. University should be for only the best and brightest.

Give us a list and I will get the DfE to do it immediately.

Just kidding about the last part - Seriously though, I'm curious as to which universities are the dud ones.

All non-Russell Groups other than St Andrews, Bath, and possibly Loughborough and Surrey.

4) I wiuldn't abolish fees but have them greatly reduced - most graduates won't pay back full amount anyway. Plus univetsities are paid out of current spending not loans over 30 years. In any case about 1% of public spending.
I would restore maintenance grants..

45-50% of the age group go to uni - too many.

It creates "graduate inflation" - too many graduates facing too few graduate jobs. The result being "under employment". The universities like to boast about their very high employment rates but don't or can't tell us about what the graduates actually do.

If you go for vocational courses such as Law or semi-vocational ones such as Business - you will be competing with so many people who have chosen a vocational course.

As for non-vocational courses eg Humanities and Social Science subjects you will end up doing jobs not connected to your degree and indeed not really requiring a degree at all.

I suggest

1) Move away from uni to more apprentices and on the job learning. Do you really need a degree to be a Supermarket Manager?

2) More 2 year courses. Courses could easily be condensed. You can do graduate convetsion courses in law, psychology and IT in just one year!

3) More online/distance learning courses. Study at home and work at the same tine.

4) I wiuldn't abolish fees but have them greatly reduced - most graduates won't pay back full amount anyway. Plus univetsities are paid out of current spending not loans over 30 years. In any case about 1% of public spending.
I would restore maintenance grants.

Going to Uni isn't just about getting a degree - but the experience as well. But then so many students live in an Echo Chamber I'm not sure most are benefitting as much as they could.

It seems to there is "grade inflation" with a higher proportion of students getting Firsts.

The Internet and technology has made it easier to do more far reaching reseach for the honest - and plagirism for the dishonest.

Schools need to do a better job at providing more options - I know in the 3 schools in my area including mine, they only ever talked about Uni. I think only once in my 7 years there was I told about apprenticeships and such. So many of us (possibly me as well) only know about one path - Uni, and if you were to not be doing the best the teachers would tell us that we need to do well to get to uni. Maybe thats why so many are going to uni, its all we've been told about and made to come across as the only option

All non-Russell Groups other than St Andrews, Bath, and possibly Loughborough and Surrey.

What about RVC, SGUL, and all the other more specialised universities that aren't in the Russell Group but are the nonetheless incredibly important? And all the non-Russell Group universities with medical schools?

Don't you remember? We've had enough of experts so we don't need medics anymore.

We.. we... we can use.... 'ERBAL MEDICINE!

Thank you for volunteering not to go to university. O sorry, I misunderstood. It is other people who shouldn't be going to university.

Suggesting a reduction in the numbers going to uni. Also saying more alternatives to 3 year Full Time courses and maintenance grants being restored with a reduction in fees.

All non-Russell Groups other than St Andrews, Bath, and possibly Loughborough and Surrey.