Afzal
speaker
13 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 May
Afzal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hi, my name is Afzal and I'm a 21 year old graduate from a working class background.
University was sold to me as a golden ticket for socioeconomic mobility.
It would allow me to enter well-paid employment, own my own home and have a higher standard of living for me and my future family.
However, since graduating from UCL with a law degree, I have found that promise to be untrue.
I've applied to around 30 or 40 different roles in the legal and policy sector and I've received either automated responses or none at all.
These applications take hours to complete and they include aptitude tests and around three to four questions averaging a thousand words in total.
But it isn't just me.
Around a million graduates are on state benefits and applying for jobs to hear no response has become exhausting for us.
I also find myself in £70,000 of student debt that will accrue at a 6% interest rate.
Extortionate rental prices mean that I will likely have to stay at home for the foreseeable future and massively inflated house prices have pushed home ownership out of the picture.
For my wealthier peers, however, the story isn't the same.
They have parents able to pay for their education fees and eventually help them onto the housing ladder.
I and millions of others have done everything as we should have done, and yet we have gotten nowhere, and it seems as though we were conditioned to enter a system which has delivered no benefit to us, but has given us a debt that we will likely be paying for our entire working life.
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