Call to scrap 50% university student target - UK

Source: BBC News Posted By: Jacky S...704 days ago

It also wants a phased increase in student top-up fees by 2020, with safeguards for disadvantaged families.

AGR's chief executive Carl Gilleard said the proposals would help "reaffirm the value of a degree".

But the lecturers' University and College Union said fewer graduates would not benefit the economy.

Higher standards

The government's target to get 50% of under-30s into higher education has "driven down standards and devalued the currency of a degree and damaged the quality of the....

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