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People in their sixties should go to university to retrain because they will
People in their sixties should go to university to retrain because they will
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2024-04-20
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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." [br] Why is it of "great value" for older people to take a degree course?
选项
A、Because they will be able to work for longer.
B、Because they will have a higher income.
C、Because they will be able to apply for student loans.
D、Because they can get training without paying student loans.
答案
C
解析
第2段第2句指出威利茨称,用于支付学费的学生贷款的申请年龄限制已经取消,老年人学习学位课程将“超值”。这两个分句之间暗含着因果关系,即,说老年人学习学位课程将“超值”是因为学生贷款的申请年龄限制已经取消。C)与此同义,故为答案。A)说老年人可以工作更长时间,这是本文讨论的主要问题,并不是他们学习学位课程会“超值”的原因,可排除。B)说老年人的收入会更高,这是老年人提高自己的知识和技能会带来的好处,不是他们学习学位课程会“超值”的原因,可排除。第2段第2句提到申请学生贷款的年龄限制已经取消,这对老年人来说是好事,即老年人要想重返大学也是需要交学费的,故D)的说法本身是错误的,更不是老年人学习学位课程会“超值”的原因,可排除。
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