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People in their sixties should go to university to retrain because they will

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问题     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." [br] Who will most probably refuse to continue to work through taking a degree course?
选项 A、Young students.
B、Elderly workers.
C、Prospective pensioners.
D、Mature taxpayers.
答案 C
解析 第4段首句说，维护老年人权益的活动家对此深表怀疑：那些潜在的养老金领取者是否愿意为了继续工作而致力于学习有挑战性的学位课程并承担更多的负债?也就是说潜在的养老金领取者可能不愿意为了继续工作而学习学位课程，故答案为C)。年轻的学生都还没有完成学业，何谈为继续工作学习?可排除A)。本文分析了老年人继续学习延长工作年限的很多好处，且倒数第二段末句的数据也表明现在有很多老年人重返大学，故老年工作者是愿意为了工作学习的，可排除B)。本文没有提到mature taxpayers，可排除D)。
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