Students 'need £20k postgraduate degrees to get a job'

By Graeme Paton. Students educated to degree level face being priced out of the jobs market as rising numbers of university leavers invest in expensive postgraduate qualifications to get ahead, according to a report published today.  Researchers warned that students were being required to find £20,000 – on top of the cost of an undergraduate degree – to pay for their way through a Master's or PhD course. Figures show that the number of people holding postgraduate qualifications has soared almost four-fold since the mid-90s. Amid an increasingly competitive jobs market, more than one-in-10 of the adult workforce in Britain is now trained to an advanced level, compared with just four per cent in 1996, it emerged. Read more...