English majors of the world beware-your degree may not be worth the money you put into it, unless you go on to get a graduate qualification. I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about education and the skills gap in the U.S. Some academics, like Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, think that the mismatch between the skills that are needed in today's work force and the skills kids graduate with is responsible for as much as a third of the growth in unemployment since the Great Recession. While college graduates as a group did much better during the financial crisis and recession than those with only a high school degree, even young college grads are suffering from usually high rates of what's called "Mal-employment"-meaning, they are doing things that are much more menial than what their education trained them to do. The study can't capture the soft skills and creativity that liberal arts education imparts, something I hear employers in the US and abroad clamoring for.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/business/~3/KYpCx1a6BuA/
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