Graduates - the new measure of power

2 March 2011 Last updated at 00:16 GMT By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Watch: How Aalto University in Finland is teaching Chinese students in EnglishAt the beginning of the last century, the power of nations might have been measured in battleships and coal. In this century it's as likely to be graduates. There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numbers of young people going to university. Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rates have almost doubled since

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