Students are going to higher education in record numbers, with almost a quarter of a million 18-year-olds leaving to study at university in 2015. This is almost one in three of our young people.
But if you were to listen to the policy debate about education, you could be forgiven for believing that every 18-year-old is going to university. The debate seems to focus on those who take the academic route, at the expense of everyone else. We need to change the way we view and value education. That must start by understanding that if 31 per cent of young people are going to university, then 69 per cent are not.
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