By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent
At 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 the mid-1990s. China's plans are not so much an upward incline as a vertical take-off...[continued]
