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A wide-ranging report by university leaders has called for 70 percent of young people to gain tertiary level qualifications, including apprenticeships as well as degrees, amid a crisis in funding for the higher education sector.
The blueprint, which includes a section by former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair’s one-time chief spin doctor Lord Peter Mandelson, also calls for a rise in tuition fees and a loosening of some of the restrictions recently applied to international students.
The new target of 70 percent comes 28 years after Blair famously set out his mantra of “education, education, education” at the Labour Party Conference in 1996 and called for half of all young people to go on to higher education—an ambition now achieved—at the cost of tuition fees for all….
