Confidence in the financial returns of a university education has fallen in the UK, as the rapid development of AI threatens to transform the job market.
A British Social Attitudes survey found that a third of people in England consider university education to be a waste of time. The proportion of people expressing this sentiment doubled over the past eight years.
Confidence in higher education’s ability to generate a return on investment reached a record low of 36 per cent, a decline of 10 percentage points from 2018.