The government target of getting 50% of people under 30 into higher education should be scrapped, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has said. It also wants a phased increase in student top-up fees by 2020, with safeguards for disadvantaged families. AGR's chief executive Carl Gilleard said the proposals would help "reaffirm the value of a degree". But the lecturers' University and College Union said fewer graduates would not benefit the economy. The government's target to get 50% of under-30s into higher education has "driven down standards and devalued the currency of a degree and damaged the quality of the university experience", according to the AGR report. "The focus must shift back to quality rather than quantity," it says. It argues that lifting the cap on university tuition fees, which from next year will be £3,290 per year in England, is "inevitable".
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