"Half of Graduates Are Working in Jobs Which Do Not Need a Degree"

Says the Daily Mail's headline, and the first bullet point it this: * 38% of over-21s are now graduates, up from 17% just two decades ago  Hardly surprising is it?  Assuming that there is a clear definition of "graduate job" and society hasn't changed that much since, twenty years ago 17% of people were graduates and there were enough graduate jobs for all of them.  We have doubled the number of graduates overall without increasing the number of graduate jobs, so clearly half of graduates will end up working in non-graduate jobs. The figures aren't quite as stark as this - rather unsurprisingly, the longer ago you graduated, the less likely you are to still be in a non-graduate job - but that's the general trend.