Budget 2012: harnessing universities to help build a stronger economy for the future
…economy Proposal one Current economic indicators suggest that there is an undersupply of graduates in the UK labour market. However, current Government policy has resulted in a reduction in university places for 2012-13 of around 25,000[1]. We propose that Government should ask the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to monitor the four economic indicators identifying graduate saturation levels so that they can advise Government…