Social enterprise should be made central to higher education strategy

There is no point in developing student social entrepreneurs if we don't also develop a thriving social enterprise sector for them to work in, says Simon Denny. When I went to university in the late 1970s, fewer than 20% of school leavers when on to higher education. Some degrees were clearly vocational (medicine perhaps the most obvious example), but most were not. My module on the Comparative Government of Indonesia and Nigeria has not, I'm afraid to say, been of direct relevance to me in the world of work.