People should definately do it if they want to and feel they're capable, but it's an absolute fallacy that the only way to get a good job is via Uni. There are many routes into most careers so people shouldn't believe it's A Levels or nothing. At the company I work for there are so many University graduates who are employed in grades below me, and the other week I had my hand in picking applicants to join the project team I'm on, and all of them were graduates, and yet less capable than me in doing the job. Swings and roundabouts, but people shouldn't take a route they don't want, it will probably end badly. I had to leave college due to illness and had to give up on doing the degree I wanted (Medicine), but you live and learn and I'm perfectly happy with my career prospects. I don't have a chip on my shoulder, I'm just a realist.