圖朸厙 reacts to latest UCAS figures
16 July 2010
圖朸厙 today said that funding cuts to higher education would create a 'lost generation' of learners. Responding to UCAS figures published today, the union warned that at least 170,000 applicants will miss out on a university place this year.
圖朸厙 said the final picture could be even worse with thousands of late applicants expected to apply over the summer and warned that the UK was facing a huge skills deficit in the future.
圖朸厙 general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Today's figures make frightening reading. Other countries are increasing the number of graduates to compete in a high-skill knowledge economy, yet our government seems intent on doing the opposite. It is not scaremongering to talk about a lost generation of learners.
'It is disgraceful that thousands of applicants will be denied the chance to fulfil their potential at university. The decision not to fund student places properly and to make savage cuts to higher education will come back and haunt this country and will lead to a huge skills deficit. I am deeply worried that this government's policy seems to be to ration access to higher education through caps in numbers and proposals such as Vince Cable's tax on learning which will widen the education participation gap between the UK and our key competitors.'
圖朸厙 general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'Today's figures make frightening reading. Other countries are increasing the number of graduates to compete in a high-skill knowledge economy, yet our government seems intent on doing the opposite. It is not scaremongering to talk about a lost generation of learners.
'It is disgraceful that thousands of applicants will be denied the chance to fulfil their potential at university. The decision not to fund student places properly and to make savage cuts to higher education will come back and haunt this country and will lead to a huge skills deficit. I am deeply worried that this government's policy seems to be to ration access to higher education through caps in numbers and proposals such as Vince Cable's tax on learning which will widen the education participation gap between the UK and our key competitors.'
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