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‘All the markers of youth are being extended’: higher education, Covid and the debt burden
With graduate employment at a low ebb and some degrees costing more, young people are starting their adult lives with onerous debt
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At the end of November, three weeks after her last exam and one week after she got her results, Maddison Sklenar found out the course she was doing might no longer exist. It was the start of the summer break.
Sklenar, 23, had just finished the second year of a three-year bachelor of arts, majoring in Chinese language and minoring in finance, at Swinburne University in Melbourne, with a dream of working in business overseas. After a year disrupted by online learning, the pandemic and the months-long Victorian lockdown, she was due to graduate at the end of 2021.
Read the original article at The Guardian