We need a fundamental rethink about the world of work and the purpose of education within it. We should cherish education for education’s sake, not just because it provides work fodder, subject to an ever changing market. We know that the educational prospects for children are higher when their parents have been through higher education. So the massive expansion of higher education has harmed the financial prospects of the 52% of young people who don’t go to university, as well as many of those who do. First, any further expansion would include, probably disproportionately, those from poorer backgrounds and from families which have no previous experience of higher education.

Source: The Guardian October 12, 2016 18:22 UTC