Higher education reform is our priority | Letter from Robert Halfon MP
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The cross-party education select committee firmly believes that if students are going to take on the big burden of a loan, there must surely be a good graduate job at the end of it, writes Robert Halfon MP
I welcome the debate on what universities and higher education should be for, but Zoe Williams clearly needs to look at the education committee's findings more closely rather than just highlighting one line out of one of my speeches (For Tories, the poor don't need education, Journal, 6 November).
Our report this week is focused on skills, social justice and good graduate outcomes. The fact is we have a huge skills deficit in our country, with the manufacturers organisation, the EEF, warning that almost three-quarters of businesses are concerned about finding workers with the skills they need. Yet just eight out of 24 Russell Group universities are offering degree apprenticeships.
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