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Europe retains an advantage in terms of pure science, as in the pharmaceutical industry, but emerging world-class companies, particularly in India, are increasingly able to recruit M.I.T. and Harvard graduates, while maintaining lower labor costs and thus global competitiveness.
Cheap Asian televisions gave Western households the wherewithal to purchase PC's powered by Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software, which are designed by engineering graduates who would otherwise have worked for TV manufacturers.
As a practical step, the EU and its member states should offer 30,000 visas and work permits annually for graduates from participating Mediterranean countries.
A 1% increase in the number of immigrant college graduates leads to a 6% increase in patents per capita.
Throughout Asia, a significant share of workers feel they are over- or under-educated for their jobs, while employers often lament a lack of qualified graduates.
Meanwhile, many university graduates – including a whopping 45% in South Korea – are struggling to find jobs.
In many Asian countries, formal education is often overly academic or simply low-quality, undermining not only graduates’ employability, but also their capacity to reap the benefits of further TVET.
To be effective, secondary and tertiary schools must produce graduates with both soft skills, such as communication and teamwork, and relevant technical skills.
Many officials (and the analysts and advisers who support them) assumed that this magic number represents the minimum rate needed to provide jobs to workers and managers and absorb the more than six million new graduates who spill out of China’s campuses each year in search of employment.
More than 70% of the educational institutions surveyed by McKinsey believe that their graduates are ready for the job market; more than half of employers and young people disagree.
Employers should communicate their requirements to educators; educators need to give their graduates the tools that will enable them to meet these requirements.
The highest level civil servant or chief justice of the Supreme Court at the end of their careers is nowadays paid barely half the salary of graduates of India's elite educational institutions, who are snapped up by the global economy.
Among US college graduates – who constitute 40% of the US labor force – the unemployment rate is just 2.7%.
Because college graduates comprise a larger share of the younger age cohorts than of the older population, the overall unemployment rate will be held down as that group ages and its share of the labor force grows.
From an employer’s perspective, older workers simply do not have the skills to compete with fresh graduates or younger colleagues.
Moreover, with starting salaries above the national median, the teaching profession attracts, develops, and retains some of the best graduates.
As for China’s backward educational system, the large number of university graduates is offset by their overall sub-standard quality.
According to a recent survey by McKinsey & Company, of the more than three million graduates churned out by China’s universities and colleges every year, less than 10% are suitable for employment with international companies, owing to their deficiencies in practical training and poor English.
And, though the issue raises obvious questions of justice and efficiency – poor countries, having invested large sums in education, now produce graduates who take jobs and pay taxes abroad – Europe has provided little in the way of an effective response.
These newly laid-off workers are joining more than six million new college graduates looking for work.
If the British public truly opposes immigration, they are probably referring to non-EU immigration, not the arrival of, say, Italian university graduates.
These companies find it harder to recruit skilled graduates when financial firms can pay higher salaries.
In the years before the 2008 financial crisis, more than a third of Harvard MBAs, and a similar proportion of graduates of the London School of Economics, went to work for financial firms.
This can be done in several ways: by means tests that impose duties on many parents; by loans to be repaid under favourable conditions; by a special tax on graduates; or by mixtures of such approaches involving a generous system of bursaries as well as charges on well-to-do parents.
Affluent cities, where university graduates concentrate, tend to vote for internationally-minded, often center-left candidates, while lower middle-class and working-class districts tend to vote for trade-adverse candidates, often from the nationalist right.
As Enrico Moretti of the University of California at Berkeley emphasized in his book The New Geography of Jobs, the salience of this new divide is unmistakable: university graduates account for half of the total population in the most affluent US metropolitan areas, but are four times less numerous in worse-off areas.
There are many reasons for insisting on this transformation, but the most compelling one, from my perspective, is the need to prepare future graduates for a world in which artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technology plays an increasingly dominant role.
Assuming AI will transform the future of work in our students’ lifetime, educators must consider what skills graduates will need when humans can no longer compete with robots.
But graduates will also need experience in psychology, if only to grasp how a computer’s “brain” differs from their own.
From the 17 th century on, American graduates were cultivated as "alumni" who regard their university experience as a life-defining process to be shared, and thus worthy of receiving financial support from them.
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