Overproduction of the university so called educated.

They have to go somewhere. After their supposed education, they feel like they are too good to do any manual labor - you know, work that is actually useful. This may cause instability. In India, where there was a similar glut of humanities graduates, these people lived off their relatives while being unemployed, becoming a factor destabilizing their country. So the governments decided to create sinecures in the bureaucracy for them, just to try to pacify them.