Twenty-three-year-old Tej Kaur Rai feels badly let down. Like most young people her age, Tej was told that if she studied hard she would have few difficulties finding a job.
More than two years after graduating with a 2.1 degree in English, however, she finds herself £16,000 in debt and back living at home with her parents in Moseley, Birmingham. "I did a journalism course in Manchester in 2009 after I graduated," she says. "I then spent the next year looking for a job. I did lots of work experience placements at newspapers and magazines, including Total Film, The Times, and the South London Press. I paid my dues but I just couldn't get a break."
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