Two charts below show the percentage of qualified graduates in a particular country. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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the proportion of five types of qualified graduates in a certain nation in 1980 and 2008. These graduates included students who studied

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degrees

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,

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degrees

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. It is evident that more students pursued higher education for

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after 20 years. The ratio of

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science witnessed the biggest increase from 13% in 1980 to 30% in 2008, followed by

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Arts with

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5% increment. Meanwhile, Masters Arts showed a

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1 % in 2008. In stark contrast, there was a significant decline

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Arts, dropping from 25% of qualified graduates in 1980 to 11% in 2008.

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, the ratio for

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science

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experienced a dramatic decrease, which

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to 10% in 2008 from 19% in 1980. Regardless

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changes, the shares for masters’ science remained unchanged at 29% in these two years.