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World Class Skills 2020

If I may, I shall quickly make this point. I am concerned that many young people are making a decision based partly on finance, but also on the robustness of the courses that are on offer. In many ways, the explosion in the growth of university education over the past decade and a half or so has meant, as is the case in other spheres, that quality has gone out of the window, and has been sacrificed for the sake of quantity. Many youngsters make an intelligent economic, market-based decision, because they believe that they would gain more by going into full-time employment than by taking a university course.