UK slips back in graduate numbers

The UK is being overtaken by international competitors in the drive for more graduates, an annual report on education systems shows.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says the UK has slipped from the third highest proportion of graduates to 4th.

The survey also found that teenagers in the UK had particularly low expectations of going to university.

But the report found that the UK was a world leader in pre-school spending.

This annual report - http://www.oecd.org/edu/eag2007 called Education at a Glance - provides a statistical snapshot of the state of education in the industrialised world.