It may not be news to the 1.5 million college graduates struggling to find a job or toiling behind café counters, but Northeastern University researchers break it down: 53.6 percent of bachelor's degree-holders under age of 25 were jobless or underemployed last year, the highest percentage since the dot-com bubble of 2000. In the last year, college graduates were more likely to be employed as servers, bartenders, and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians combined. The class of 2012 is about to get a gigantic wake-up call.
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Peter John Baskerville
onto Teacherpreneurs and education reform |
The statistics are showing that there is something fundamentally wrong with our higher education system when 1 in 2 graduates are unemployed or under-employed. We are failing our kids and leaving them with huge debts. Higher education needs to urgently reconnect with industry and teach skills that industry needs to industry best practice standards.