The symbolic target of 50% at university reached

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Tony Blair's ambition for half of young adults to go into higher education is reached, 20 years later.

Figures from the Department for Education, for 2017-18, show 50.2% of people going into higher education.The annual statistics on entry to higher education show the proportion of people set to go to university before the age of 30.These latest figures are only a fraction higher than the year before - up from 49.9% - but after years of steady increases, they have crossed into representing a majority.

In 1980, only 15% stayed in full-time education after the age of 18, in any kind of training or further or higher education, including universities and what were then polytechnics. By 1990, that had risen to 25% for all forms of post-18 education, according to House of Commons library figures.The target of 50% going into higher education was set in September 1999 in a conference speech by Tony Blair, two years after coming into office.

"Today I set a target of 50% of young adults going into higher education in the next century," Mr Blair told Labour Party delegates.

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