“I’m a little worried about my future . ” said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate . He should be so lucky . All he had to worry about was whether to have an affair with Mrs. Robinson . In the sixties , that was the total sum of post-graduation anxiety . Hoffman’s modem peers are not so fortunate . The Mrs. Robinsons aren’t sitting around at home any more . They are out in the workplace , doing the high-powered jobs the graduates want , but cannot get . For those fresh out of university , desperate for work but unable to get it , there is a big imbalance between supply and demand . And there is no narrowing of the gap in sight . Parents feel as badly let down as the young people themselves . Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole ( 救济金 ) queue and wonder why they bothered paying school fees . Working-class families feel an even keener sense of disappointment . For many such families , getting a child into university was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream . It was proof that they were living in a dynamic , economically successful country . That dream does not seem so rosy now . Graduate unemployment is not , ultimately , a political problem . Job-creation for graduates is very low down in the government’s schedule . If David Cameron’s Conservatives ( 保守党 ) had a brilliant idea for guaranteeing every graduate a well-paid job , they would have presented it by now . It is a social problem , though a more deep-seated social problem than people perhaps realize .