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People in their sixties should go to university to retrain because they will be expected to work for longer before retirement, t
People in their sixties should go to university to retrain because they will be expected to work for longer before retirement, t
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2015-03-28
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People in their sixties should go to university to retrain because they will be expected to work for longer before retirement, the Government has suggested.
Older workers who take courses to keep their skills up to date will be more likely to keep their jobs, claims David Willetts, the higher education minister. Mr Willetts said the age limit on student loans to cover tuition fees had been lifted, making a degree course "great value" for older people. This would help them cope with the pressure they would face to keep up to date as they worked well into their sixties, he suggested.
His comments followed a government report which found that the country’s future economic success would depend on the skills and contributions of older workers.
Campaigners for the elderly voiced doubts that prospective pensioners would be willing to commit to challenging degree courses and increased levels of debt to continue working. One in four people will be older than 65 by 2033 and economists have warned that the ageing population will place an unsustainable burden on taxpayers unless more people work for longer. The state pension age is to rise to 67 by 2028. Ministers have warned that they have no idea when younger workers in their thirties will be able to retire.
Mr Willetts, who is accompanying David Cameron in India, urged workers older than 60 to give further education serious consideration. "There is certainly a pressure for continuing to get retrained and upskilled," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Higher education has an economic benefit in that if you stay up to date with knowledge and skills you are more employable." Mr Willetts said a university course had "wider" benefits, making people more likely to lead healthy lives. "Education is such a good thing it is not reserved for younger people," he said. "There will be people of all ages who will want to study. There is great value in lifelong learning."
Under previous rules, students in England were eligible for a loan to cover tuition fees only if they were younger than 54. "There was a lot of criticism about the ageism of all this," Mr Willetts said. "The regime now is there is no age limit on fee loans." Latest figures showed that only 1,940 undergraduates starting courses last year were older than 60, out of a total of 552,240 students in Britain. Some 6,455 were aged between 50 and 60, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Mr Willetts said this pattern was changing. He said: "There is evidence that the idea that you first study and then stop isn’t what the world is like any more."
It can be inferred from the last but one paragraph that______.
选项
A、the older people become, the fewer of them will receive higher education
B、undergraduates older than 50 account for more than 7% of students in Britain
C、people older than 54 now can’t apply for student loans to cover their tuition fees
D、older people who are willing to get retrained now are becoming fewer and fewer
答案
A
解析
根据该段提供的数据: “去年开课的本科生中只有1,940名学生年龄超过60岁”和“约6455名学生年龄在50到60岁之间”可以看出,年龄越大接受高等教育的人越少,A)与此同义,故为正确答案。该段提到“英国共有552,240名学生,其中有l,940名学生年龄超过60岁,约6,455名学生年龄在50到60岁之间”,由此可知,50岁以上的学生占总学生人数的1.5%((1,940+6,455)/552,240),不是7%,故B)错误。该段提到,以前只有54岁以下的英国学生才能申请助学贷款以支付学费,现在的政策是学费贷款无年龄限制,由此可知,现在54岁以上的人也能申请贷款,故C)错误。本段没有提供愿意重新接受培训的老年人今昔数据的对比,但从助学贷款无年龄限制等政策来看,愿意重新接受培训的老年人应该是越来越多,故D)错误。
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