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You and Yours - Call You and Yours

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Presented by Julian Worricker. Are government plans to increase access to higher education the right way forward? If you are about to leave school, you have got your wits about you and you have a rough idea of what you want to do, how much will your prospects be improved by getting a degree? In today's programme we debate the government's target to get 50% of under-thirties into higher education by 2010. Is it laudable to spread what university offers more broadly, or is it a recipe for lower academic standards?