A degree that once served as an all-access pass today buys you a place in a long, polite queue. The national picture isn’t one of collapse, but it certainly isn’t one of milk and honey flowing from the taps. More than 600,000 UK graduates are reported to be claiming welfare benefits, with graduates making up 12% of those being paid Universal Credit. As students and readers of this paper know all too well, inboxes are flooded with automated communications from King’s Careers & Employability. Another reform that would go a long way to earning credibility with existing and prospective students is a paid internship pledge.