Posted on 08/19/2015 12:50:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Over-qualification has reached saturation point, meaning money invested in education is being wasted and young people are crippled by debt, report warns.
Britain’s failure to create sufficient high-skilled jobs for its rising proportion of graduates means the money invested in education is being squandered, while young people are left crippled by student debts, warns a new report.
The mismatch between the number of university leavers and the jobs appropriate to their skills has left the UK with more than half of its graduates in non-graduate jobs, one of the highest rates in Europe, according to research commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)....
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The Government should just pass a law that raises their salaries. So simple.
< / liberal logic = "off" >
But they do have great basketball players.
The article misses the point that today’s degrees do not necessarily qualify “graduates” for higher skilled jobs. They need to have brains, too. :)
Lets see, a plethera of meaningless degrees, toss in a dose of entitlement, laziness, unwillingness to get hands dirty, and bam! A great big WHINE!
Let’s take a breath. No democracy “fails to create high-end jobs.” If there are few or no such jobs it’s because they are not needed in that country. They go to people in other countries that can sell their output to whomever. High-end jobs appear in democracies because the need for them is there and less needed elsewhere. This writer is clueless.
Maybe if they chose Medicine, Electrical Engineering etc etc instead of Womyns Studies, Education and Psychology there would be more demands for their services.
Everything they mention happening in the UK, is also happening here in America. We too have this imbalance in the job market, in which the number of jobs which really require a college education, or certain types of degrees, are far less than the number of college graduates in the job market.
There are some well educated baristas at Starbucks and wait staff at restaurants. But they didn’t need college to get those jobs.
We should have a “national discussion” about this idea that everyone should go to college. Politicians of both parties talk about how we need people to go to college, and expand loan programs so they can afford it. But what is lost in the discussion is whether these college degrees actually qualify them for any meaningful career path.
If they get a degree in a field such as accounting or nursing, or some hard science fields such as engineering, they will find career paths and jobs which require and use their college educations.
If they get a degree in some liberal arts field, they will find that their degrees do not qualify them for much of anything in the job market.
They should learn plumbing. Plumbing is the most noble profession on Earth. Potable drinking water and proper sanitation is what separates a superior civilization from an inferior one.
Mirror image of what has been happening in the US for years!
So the college bubble was a world-wide mistake.
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