I wish they would include a better breakdown of education to include those who have a technical degree or other from a vocational type of shhool.
The report seems to incicate the mere completion of a university course/degree is what counts for income prospects. It is misleadiing.
“...the mere completion of a university course/degree is what counts for income prospects. It is misleadiing...”
Damn straight. Speaking from personal experience, even within STEM, the *wrong* degree specialisation in the *wrong* time/market for it can quite often just make someone unemployable, but with the new and improved feature of an albatross of student loan debt around their neck that can take YEARS to pay off, (working in fields that have absolutely *zero* to do with your degrees, and that you could have worked in with just a high school diploma), and by the time you start to emerge from underneath that mountain, the world and the economy has moved on without you, and you’ve effectively aged yourself out of the most lucrative parts of the job market.
I realised a few years back that I would have been much further ahead in life than I am now, if I had just stuck with the high school diploma.