Dear Netters:
It is good to read such reports. However, if you read in between the
lines there are things to be said. Just one or two examples. Here 'born
in UK'
would include our own children.
Second example is that the migration of educated, talented and
diligent people leaving their own country to work abroad is a loss to
their mother country.Lord Macaulay once said in Parliament that if the
colonialists (the educated & talented ones) would have remained in
England, possibly England would have been better in all respects.(Not
the exact words which I forgot).
-bhuban
By Richard Garner
education Editor
Migrants are better qualified and holding down better-paid jobs than
people born in the UK, according to a major international study
published yesterday.
Figures show that 34 per cent of migrants in the UK have a post-school
qualification; 4.9 percentage points higher than the figure for
non-immigrants. They are also better paid than migrants in most other
countries and UK-born workers, putting less of a strain on the benefit
system, according to research by the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development.
A quarter of international students from outside Europe complete their
studies in the UK and stay on in the country, said Andreas Schleicher,
head of the indicators and analysis division at the OECD and author of
the report. "The benefits to your economy from them are great," he said.
His intervention comes at a time when universities fear that visa
restrictions will drive international students away from UK
universities. Baroness Blackstone, vice-chancellor of Greenwich
University and a former Labour Universities minister, said applications
to her university were 10 per cent down this year.
"Migrants tend to be better qualified with a higher proportion of
degree holders," Mr Schleicher added. "It is a very interesting factor
that often gets lost in the public debate about immigration."
Yesterday's report also revealed that poorly qualified UK adults had
been some of the hardest hit by the recession in the entire world.
Figures showed the employment rate amongst 15- to 29-year-olds without
at least five A* to C grade GCSE passes had fallen from 65.6 per cent
to 56.9 per cent – a slump four times higher than the international
average.
"Adults (without the equivalent of five top-grade GCSE passes) have
borne the brunt of the economic crisis and seen a marked drop in their
employment prospects between 2008 and 2009 [the years of the study's
findings]," said the report. It added that this showed "significant
vulnerability for individuals with less education".
The survey also showed that the UK trails behind other countries in the
percentage of young people going into higher education, despite a
massive increase in the past decade. And, of the 30 countries in the
survey, 25 had higher rates of 15- to 19-year-olds in education and 27
had a higher rate of 20- to 29-year-olds in education.
"Even before the Government decided to treble tuition fees and slash
funding, UK participation in higher and further education was already
languishing near the bottom of the table and they have now put us at
risk of dropping even further still," said Liam Burns, president of the
National Union of Students.
The report also showed that a major investment in education in the UK
between 2000 and 2008 had seen a significant drop in class sizes –
particularly in secondary schools where the average had dropped to 19.6
pupils, well below the OECD average of 24
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