Monday, October 21, 2013

Increase in university demand


It has been noted that the demand for universities is on the rise. The article talks about how universities are dealing with the increasing demand and how the improving educational standards in England is driving up demand for universities. A report from the universities minister has been released at an attempt to update another report which had been released over 50 years ago, and according to it only 5% of young people went to universities. The report also considers what the demand will be after 20 years time and it suggests that a need to increase in places by 92,000 will be needed by England based universities. When the original Robbins reports was published in 1963, 216.000 students were in enrolled in higher education.

The full article can be read here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24579816

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