Letter: Science graduates cannot find jobs
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I agreed with your leading article 'Urgent need for the appliance of science' (19 August), triggered by the A-level results demonstrating a fall in numbers opting for science subjects.
My son graduated from university with an engineering degree in June. He is now labouring for a builders' merchant for pounds 2.75 an hour. It is the only job he has been able to find.
Perhaps the country doesn't want scientists and technologists.
Yours faithfully,
DAVID ELAM
Macclesfield, Cheshire
20 August
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