But it seems likely that government policy, which has pushed up the proportion of youngsters going to university by nearly a quarter over the past ten years, and plans to increase it from its current 43% to 50% by 2010, has also had an effect.

ECONOMIST: Education economics

Total government spending increased by a 3.5 percent annual rate in the third quarter, after declining in nine of the past ten quarters.

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