Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Aptronym alert!
Via Economic Populist blog: More bad news for universities and good news for PROPER education ... if anyone had the sense to offer PROPER education.
Excellent advice. Economists and other "experts" should have been giving this advice a long long LONG time ago. It's been true forever.
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"You can make more money on average if you go to college, but it's not true for everybody," says Harvard economist Richard Freeman, noting the growing risk of a debt bubble with total U.S. student loan debt surpassing $1 trillion. "If you're not sure what you're going to be doing, it probably bodes well to take some job, if you can get one, and get a sense first of what you want from college."
Excellent advice. Economists and other "experts" should have been giving this advice a long long LONG time ago. It's been true forever.
Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University who analyzed the numbers, said many people with a bachelor's degree face a double whammy of rising tuition and poor job outcomes. "Simply put, we're failing kids coming out of college," he said, emphasizing that when it comes to jobs, a college major can make all the difference. "We're going to need a lot better job growth and connections to the labor market, otherwise college debt will grow."
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