UK graduates are wasting degrees in lower-skilled jobs

Over-qualification has reached saturation point, meaning money invested in education is being wasted and young people are crippled by debt, report warns

Britain's failure to create sufficient high-skilled jobs for its rising proportion of graduates means the money invested in education is being squandered, while young people are left crippled by student debts, warns a new report.

The mismatch between the number of university leavers and the jobs appropriate to their skills has left the UK with more than half of its graduates in non-graduate jobs, one of the highest rates in Europe, according to research commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

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