UCU comments on graduate unemployment figures

UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Today's graduate unemployment figures are further bad news for students and young people. The coalition has slashed university budgets, tripled tuition fees, axed vital support for college students and the Future Jobs Fund.

'Those who do make it through university are going to face a difficult job market without support, but saddled with record levels of debt. UCU, along with the TUC and NUS, is organising a demonstration in Manchester on Saturday that calls for immediate investment in education and jobs. Failure to do so risks consigning a whole generation to the scrapheap of inactivity.'

• Full details of the Manchester protests
• Full graduate unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics