In The Independent, Kate Hilpern writes: Just the job - or a degree too far?
Too many knowledge workers and not enough lower-skilled workers?
Here's an excerpt:
The UK is producing too many graduates and the demand for "knowledge workers" has been seriously overestimated, leading academics have claimed. A study of over 28 million UK jobs found only 32 per cent were knowledge-based, traditionally requiring a university graduate. This falls well short of government estimates, which suggest that between 70 and 80 per cent of the workforce are knowledge-based workers.
"We have tended to think there has been an explosion in the number of jobs requiring knowledge workers," says Lancaster University's Anthony Hesketh, co-author of the research. "In reality, the situation is that growth has stalled. Lower-skilled jobs have expanded at far faster rates than knowledge-worker jobs."
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