Many university graduates cannot find a job in their chosen profession. What factors may have caused this situation and what, in your opinion, should be done about it?

When young people are choosing what subject to study at university, most of them hope they will find a great

job

upon graduation. In

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many fresh

graduates

fail to find work in their field and some are even forced to take up a below graduate-level

job

. In my opinion, the root of

this

problem lies in the outdated higher

education

system that should be modernized. Traditional university

education

does not prepare

students

for their

first

job

for a number of reasons. One of them is that many programmes are too theoretical. It means that highly educated

graduates

lack simple skills required for employment,

for example

, the knowledge of IT software. Employers,

therefore

, prefer candidates with hands-on experience. Another reason is that

universities

offer too many courses in popular fields,

such

as business and law, and do not recruit enough

students

for engineering and science programmes.

As a result

, the UK labour market has an oversupply of law

graduates

and a deficit of engineers. Reform of higher

education

could alleviate many of the problems but would require joint efforts from

universities

and the government. If

universities

worked closely with employers, they could teach

students

practical skills that companies look for. Meanwhile, the government could develop guidelines on how many

students

universities

should recruit in each subject in accordance with the market demand. In conclusion, a likely reason why many

graduates

cannot find a

job

in their field is that university

education

might not have provided them with the right skill set or an in-demand profession. I think that

universities

and the government could improve the situation by updating the content of the programmes and limiting the number of

students

in each subject in line with the market demand.