It also demonstrates the value of early interventions: as the number of women earning bachelor's degrees has increased, so has the number of women earning PhDs.
By 2011, the number of social science and history degrees had increased to only about 177,000, though the total number of graduates had more than doubled.
The number of students taking vocational degrees has increased sharply over the past year, with a rise in applications to subjects that are allied to medicine, nursing, nutrition, engineering and games technology among others.
The number of pupils choosing dance has risen by 83 per cent in the past four years and the number of people taking dance degrees has increased from 7,000 in 2001 to almost 19,000 in 2007.
The number of Ph.D. degrees has increased in all fields of study.
However, in recent years, the reaction temperature and cracking degree have increased to a large extent with the feedstocks becoming heavier and inferior.
The number of newly-employed teaching assistants with a degree has increased from 5.6%to36.9%9% since 1979.
Research conducted by the Resolution Foundation, and endorsed by Willetts, shows that the importance of having a degree has increased over time, in defiance of the assumption that the more highly educated people there are, the less valuable their qualifications.
In a study similar to mine, Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarski, economists at the University of Michigan, found that the proportion of students from upper-income families who earn a bachelor's degree has increased by 18 percentage points over a 20-year period, while the completion rate of poor students has grown by only 4 points.
In line with national and international strategies in Europe, the number of nurses with a doctoral degree has increased.
