Source: www.educationviews.org - Thursday, September 26, 2019
Tony Blair’s ambition for half of young adults to go into higher education is reached, 20 years later. The proportion of young people in England going to university has passed the symbolic 50% mark for the first time. It comes almost exactly 20 years after then Prime Minister Tony Blair made the call for half of young adults to go into higher education . Figures from the Department for Education, for 2017-18, show 50.2% of people going into higher education. The figures are higher for women, where 57% are going to university. The annual statistics on entry to higher education show the proportion of people set to go to university before the age of 30. Social change These latest figures are only a fraction higher than the year before – up from 49.9% – but after years of steady increases, it means a majority of young adults are now going on to higher education. It shows a significant social change over the decades. Tony Blair announced the aim of reaching 50% going into higher education at the 1999 Labour conference 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. Gender gap The target of 50% going into higher education was set in September 1999 in a conference speech by Tony Blair, two yea
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Tony Blair’s ambition for half of young adults to go into higher education is reached, 20 years later. The proportion of young people in England going to university has passed the symbolic 50% mark for the first time. It comes almost exactly 20 years after then Prime Minister Tony Blair made the call for half of young adults to go into higher education . Figures from the Department for Education, for 2017-18, show 50.2% of people going into higher education. The figures are higher for women, where 57% are going to university. The annual statistics on entry to higher education show the proportion of people set to go to university before the age of 30. Social change These latest figures are only a fraction higher than the year before – up from 49.9% – but after years of steady increases, it means a majority of young adults are now going on to higher education. It shows a significant social change over the decades. Tony Blair announced the aim of reaching 50% going into higher education at the 1999 Labour conference 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. Gender gap The target of 50% going into higher education was set in September 1999 in a conference speech by Tony Blair, two yea
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