Your "retail work" = my "shop assistant". All the jobs she seems to be able to get are 10% window work and 90% shop floor selling....driving her mad!

But degree useful....?
In my day it was " peace studies" that the dossers went for


Err, ditto on the apologies

Even at overseas rates, it's going to be cheaper than here (US) though, isn't it...?

Camouflage department?

You do like to ignore the reality don't you? So an increase in unemployment of 800, 000 from the height of a credit bubble to perhaps the worst recession in the developed world in 70 or 80 years (or possible a century) is not an improvement. And after a growth in population of nearly 3 million. Makes me wonder just what conditions there will be when the economy eventually does meet your expectations.

Reducing unemployment by 4,000 in a month when the working age population has increased by 40,000 in the same time with a working population the size of the UK is one heck of an achievement that I think any country in the world will envy.

The reason I harp on is that people who read this are likely to be thinking of their possibility of finding work. The figures are quite unequivocal. You can huff and puff as much as you like, trying to make people feel bad, but their chances are very good indeed. It may not always be the work people want at least initially but people who move in search of something better are, in my experience,very determined people.

The rate of job creation in the UK gives all a chance

Depends. She was looking at Sussex which is 16,000 pounds. But there are some cheaper, and it's only 3 years.

Even if things improve in the next 4 years, there will be a backlog of graduates who have been unable to get suitable employment so it will still be a pretty competitive job market. Most of our graduates have been unable to get suitable work for a few years now.

It doesn't even make a dent in the unemployment figures.

So - no answer then to any of the substantive points anybody has made.

One question....

Why do you not respond to all posts by simply saying that despite any and all evidence to the contrary, you will always say it is bad in the UK?

That would save everyone a lot of time


DNFTT.

Why did I not think of that?

Have you not seen the links and statistics that I have put into posts, showing the evidence that I have mentioned?

Have you also not read the post where I said that things will improve eventually?

Serious question.

Is it better to have 300 people employed earning £12k per annum or 100 people employed earning £36k per annum?

I thought that the 4000 figure could secure gold for Britain in the annual Straw-Clutching Olympics.

Zen, you are a regular ray of sunshine!

If you think that was miserable I better not talk to you about Syria!

I wouldnt worry about it, I think most can see real tangible improvements here even just in the last couple of months.