Figures from the Department for Education, for 2017-18, show 50.2% of people going into higher education.The annual statistics on entry to higher education show the proportion of people set to go to university before the age of 30.These latest figures are only a fraction higher than the year before - up from 49.9% - but after years of steady increases, they have crossed into representing a majority.
In 1980, only 15% stayed in full-time education after the age of 18, in any kind of training or further or higher education, including universities and what were then polytechnics. By 1990, that had risen to 25% for all forms of post-18 education, according to House of Commons library figures.The target of 50% going into higher education was set in September 1999 in a conference speech by Tony Blair, two years after coming into office.
"Today I set a target of 50% of young adults going into higher education in the next century," Mr Blair told Labour Party delegates.
BBCPolitics Yet we still have a shortage of doctors, nurses, engineers and other essential jobs. 🤔
More debt hanging around the shoulders of people who cannot afford them. Massive debt blackhole facing the government with unpaid debts. Dreadful strategy.
Great. No shortage of media studies graduates . Just what we need
This is very dangerous. Almost half of our children are being indoctrinated and politicised by the rampant post-modernism taught by our educational establishment. It's time to come down hard on politicised lecturers at University.
Thanks to Blair 🌹
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And what is the drop out rate now compared with twenty years ago? Many young people going to university because they are told you cannot get a job without a degree, except many cannot get a job with a degree and would have been better doing vocational training or apprenticeship.
It’s been a gigantic fuck up resulting in 100,000s of people leaving the university system with a devalued qualification, debt and, through no fault of theirs, completely unrealistic aspirations about the work they’ll end up in. Wheres the societal value in any of that?
That's going to be a lot of debt.
i know places that now have policies that ignore degrees over other things,honestly this isnt great,some things require degrees of corse but most do not,if it were free it wouldnt matter but were saddling the young with unaffordable lifetime of debt 4 something useless.
BBCPolitics And because of it degrees are worth a lot less than they used to. Well done us
So with more graduates than graduate jobs, how do student loans get repaid? Rhetorical I know.
In my line of work we are inundated with young graduates who lack basic interpersonal skills, the ability to write coherent sentences, and a complete lack of common sense. I would take a sensible experienced non graduate any day.
Kerching!
50% and most of those degrees are worthless crap
and it's ended up as an unmitigated disaster. The whole system needs rethought to give 18-21's the best start not a middling education.
That’s what happens when you dumb it down so much a turnip could find a university place. All about the money and not our children’s future! When it was free and bloody hard, degrees were like printing money, now a degree is worth flipping burgers.
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BBCPolitics This is why we need so many migrants to fill the jobs that they would of.
Symbolic of the race to the bottom, the goal, mediocrity for all. Orwell would be astounded how the people in influence are almost using 1984 as an instruction manual. If you haven't read it, I would recommend you do so, it makes sense of all this nonsense.
50% of which are studying worthless degrees and incurring huge debt. A symbol to be proud of!
BBCPolitics A ridiculous target that has caused qualification inflation in the workplace with many leaving university with worthless degrees who employees then have to train to do basic tasks.
BBCPolitics Yet it’s created an environment where 50% of those people are doing pointless degrees yet still still expect to walk into a job at the end of it. Then they complain about the cost of said degree, further education is a choice.
Classic case of confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. And it wasn't just Blair, this nonsense started in '92 when they scrapped polytechnics.
Well it's not 50% when it's come to gender. It's 57% women, so where is the outrage it's not 50-50? As equality it inequality. I'm situation that favour women it's never brought up.
BBCPolitics But the students get accepted with lower than adequate background knowledge and subsequently drop out. First hand information.
BBCPolitics Not sure it has been a good thing... it has just deferred entry to the workforce for 3 years for huge numbers of young people and led them into debt before acquiring the very same jobs they could have started with 2 A levels.
BBCPolitics And 45% of them are a complete waste of time and money if there isn't a Royal Institute or similar to join on graduation.
Tony Blair wtf!
Young people only go to university for the social life.
By renaming non-universities universities. Surprised it took so long.
When I went 40 years ago, it was almost unheard to get a first, and bloody hard to get a 2.1. I now see going through our company first after first in so called business management and marketing ....
And 20 years ago those who didn’t go to uni became plumbers, builders and such at tech colleges. Now we have to import them from outside the UK as our art degree holders find work at fast food joints.
And what a disaster that has been. Graduates who can't get relevant work and a huge shortage of skilled and semi skilled workers....
Congratulations, your Bachelors degree is now worthless. Quick, everyone get a Masters!
Labour party policy to get more people into University, immediately followed by all of them charging the max for 'tuition fees' (not the elite)..whopee, a few hours a week. The poor are subsidised, the rich can afford it, and the majority are saddled with debt. Symbolic of what?
And come away with a pointless degree
Did he want them to go and get a useless degree or indoctrinated? Either way they are tens of thousands in debt while the more industrious have been in work for 4 years.
Ever wondered why there is a trade shortage and we have to import foreign worker's to fill the gap
By doing this degrees are devalued and for the majority unnecessary.....
This isn't a good thing. It's depreciated the value of a degree.
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