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It's important you get your children to university....
Some of the "middle" skilled jobs i.e. nurse now require a degree which they didn't in 1993 so can't be classed as that any more.
Also they didn't separate people by age. You are more likely to be in a "highly" skilled job if you are older.
The problem is that labour loved inflation and they have successfully inflated jobs away to insisting on paper certification.
Professions that used to accept 16 year olds and trained them up now expect them to arrive "trained" aged 24. Its the same for accountancy, solicitors and nursing. While you used to be able to start aged 16 and earn while you work you now need to have a piece of paper that costs you 5 years of your life before you start earning.
The last example I say is an insistence that School Heads and Deputy heads should have Master degrees. Exactly what does that add apart from giving people more work to do.
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