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The Great University Con

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Great University Con

By David Craig

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About the book

Thirty years ago, around 770,000 people - just one in six school leavers - attended a British university or polytechnic. Now there are over 2.3 million students in Higher Education - almost half of school leavers. But has this huge growth in 'Uni' really been the great success that politicians and universities would have us believe? After all, what's the point of having a degree if one in every two people has one and if less than one in ten students on many courses will find a graduate job? THE ...Show more

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2018

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The Great University Con

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