{"id":8026,"date":"2010-03-09T15:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:01:38","slug":"business-leaders-oppose-democratization-of-british-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/03\/business-leaders-oppose-democratization-of-british-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Leaders Oppose Democratization of British Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2010\/mar\/09\/abolish-50percent-target\">Abolish Labour target of sending 50% to university, report urges<\/a><br \/>\nThe government&#8217;s strategy has driven down standards and devalued degrees, say graduate recruiters<\/p>\n<p>The national graduate recruitment exhibition at the Barbican in London last year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Labour&#8217;s target of getting 50% of young people to go to university has driven down standards and devalued degrees \u2013 and the next government should abolish it, leading graduate recruiters argued today.<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), which represents 750 employers, many of them blue-chip companies, also called for a phased increase in top-up fees. It said its proposals would force higher education institutions to be more open about the job prospects their courses offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: Abolish Labour target of sending 50% to university, report urges The government&#8217;s strategy has driven down standards and devalued degrees, say graduate recruiters The national graduate recruitment exhibition at the Barbican in London last year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid\/Getty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/03\/business-leaders-oppose-democratization-of-british-universities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2255,2258,2273],"tags":[3930,1288945,5784,2667],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-university","category-equity","category-students","tag-access","tag-corporate-university","tag-democratization","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}