Tag Archives: graduate unemployment

1 in 4 unemployed Australians has a degree. How did we get to this point?

| March 30, 2021 | 0 responses

A series of government policy reforms over recent decades aimed to increase the proportion of Australian workers with university degrees. They got that result, but what they did not expect to see was that almost one in four unemployed people would have a degree (although employees with a degree appear to have fared better during […] … learn more→

Students fail after College

| October 13, 2014 | 0 responses

I’ve often cited Academically Adrift, which shows that much of higher education is bogus: most students go their whole college career without being able to read or write in any significant amount. The authors of that book have produced a sequel of sorts, Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates, looking at how well […] … learn more→