September 28, 2007

UK drops back in graduate figures

The competition from abroad has intensified from universities, not so much that they are attracting more foreign student’s, it’s the home grown variety that is boosting the graduate figures. Once again the UK has dropped down in the amount of graduate numbers and has actually moved down the table that compares graduation rates from the sample countries to tenth place.

Many countries including Australia, New Zealand and the Scandinavian countries all have around 75% of their younger people at university, while in the UK the figure is only just over 50%. And even now the expectation of today’s fifteen year old students is that only 32% of this group are expected to go onto university.

Source [BBC News]