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How 25 years of education policy led us to believe we can only succeed in life with a degree

How 25 years of education policy led us to believe we can only succeed in life with a degree

The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is putting measures in place to restrict student numbers on what he has termed “rip-off degrees”: university courses that have high drop-out rates and are unlikely to lead to highly skilled jobs. Instead, the government is promoting apprenticeships, through which young people train for a specific career while in employment. Ucas, […]…