This morning, 18 year olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will have woken up to their A-level results. Many will now be making the final decisions about what they will study at university and where. Provided that A-level leavers have behaved in roughly the same way as they did in 2014, a tenth of newly enrolled undergraduates will go on to study, in the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s words, “Social Sciences” at university. This nebulous term presumably encompasses the study of politics and economics.
These people, (although not all) most would assume, will emerge from university with a firm grasp on the political and economic workings of our country. However, they are a minority among undergraduates, and will represent a far tinier minority of 21 one year olds generally when they come to graduate after three years.
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