The impact of Widening Participation upon education in this Country

Widening participation is a key government strategy in which students are taken in from social groups or communities that have not traditionally entered higher education. Whilst most institutes will welcome a new source of students, they recognise that these students are likely to have different learning skills/expectations and research suggests they are likely to need additional support if they are to succeed. As a key government target is to improve retention rates, there has …

…from employers would become more demanding, i.e. people will need a degree to have any type of job, from being a doctor working at a practice to working at your local book store, Waterstones. I believe that strategy as good as its intentions are, will cause an economic crisis, as employers' demands increase, employee's demands would also increase (pay raise). This in turn would cause prices to soar and inflation at an exponential rate.