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So you're overeducated and underemployed — welcome to the world of the young urban failure

2 November 2013

9:00 AM

2 November 2013

9:00 AM

I remember, during one of my last classes at UCL, the topic of conversation turned from the cultural implications of Algerian independence to the subject of life after university. Our lecturer, a grumpy ‘progressive Hoxhaist’, told us that things had never been worse, and out of the 20 or so students in the room, only one or two would have found any kind of full-time employment by the time the year was out.

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