At any rate I am still more concerned with inequality than with relative mobility within quintiles. There is always going to be a larger number who stay than those who move, and the numbers here are not as bad as the author makes them seem
Free education generally means that there are fewer placements. In countries where university used to be free you had to excel to be accepted, so many students left school with only the opportunity to enter the trades or an apprenticeship. Once universities charged fees, they could open up to a broader range of students. This may leave us where we are now - with people with degrees and heavy loan payments but maybe it's just a transition period we have to go through, where students start to become directed more into areas that actually suit them rather than the default bachelor degree. I'm not convinced on either method and would like to see a balance in between, and better funding for apprenticeships.
Actually as I am looking at expanding my business, I am actually looking to an apprenticeship/guild model for scalability rather than a traditional corporate model.
At any rate I am still more concerned with inequality than with relative mobility within quintiles. There is always going to be a larger number who stay than those who move, and the numbers here are not as bad as the author makes them seem