No less than 97% of them want their children to go on to university, even though most did not have a higher education themselves, researchers at the Institute of Education, University of London, have found.
Today, roughly a third of young people in the UK progress from school to higher education. However, that proportion will be much higher in ten years’ time if the mothers of children born in the first few years of the new century get their way, a survey of almost 14,000 families has shown.
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