Is a degree worth it?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
With the huge cost of a three or four-year course, squeezed graduate incomes and fast changes to the job market due to AI, is a degree worth it?
Niall Paterson speaks to business and economics correspondent Paul Kelso about whether the cost of a degree outweighs its reward and just what has changed since Tony Blair vowed to get 50% of school-leavers going to university in 1999.
Producer: Emily Hulme
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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