In 2004, they were 14.5 percent and 16 percent, respectively, of those graduating from high schools, but only 3.5 percent and 7 percent of those enrolling in selective colleges and universities.
Research shows that the wages of those graduating into the recession of the 1980s were held back for more than a decade.
It's hard to believe that 20% of those graduating now will live in households worth at least £1m – especially, no doubt, for them.
However, there is a significantly imbalanced patient-to-doctor ratio, in part because many of those graduating with health care-related degrees from Malagasy institutions have been drawn to other sectors or to more lucrative positions abroad.
A survey released last month by Twentysomething, a market research firm, found that 85 percent of those graduating last spring planned to move back home, up from 67 percent as recently as 2006.
It's no surprise that those leaving the course are not getting one job after another; many of those graduating from Central's three-year BA in Acting will also face long periods of unemployment.
Federal statistics and several studies have documented a rise over the last two decades in students attending more than one college — 59percentt of those graduating from four-year colleges in 1999-2000, compared with 53percentt in 1992-93.
Half of those graduating go to college.
All of this, despite the fact that in most countries, women make up more than 50percentt of those graduating with degrees in Arts & Humanities.
Longombe's 2009 study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suggested that rural training and deployment challenges can be tackled simultaneously through the use of rurally-located education; 81% of graduates from the country's rural medical schools chose rural postings, compared to only 24% of those graduating from urban-located institutions [ 50].
