Educating The WorkForce Of The Future
GOOD and Hyperakt partnered with University of Phoenix to create this infographic that asks us to think about whether America is educating students with “the right kind of post-secondary education” to meet the demands of the workforce of the future. What do you think?
[Link to original infographic]
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If the graphic’s right, the problem is not with 4 year colleges and BA graduates, it’s with 2 year degrees. This makes me wonder if any of the people who need to see it, the ones with no college who need to move into the some college column, ever will see it.
It’s interesting, but the infographic is funded by an organization that some would call a bit of a “mill”, right? I think there’s something fundamentally wrong about requiring a college degree when the classes are often taught by people who know less about the subject matter than the students, at least when it comes to many of the info-worker jobs of today. Who would you rather have run your social media marketing initiative? A professor or one of his brighter students.
This is a multifaceted infographic, but beyond the main chart showing the growth of careers requiring higher ed, there is a lot missing for someone looking to plan a career that will be the right choice to help them to pay off the loans they will take out to attend the University of Phoenix. Like too much information about the question of higher education, it sends the message “you need to go to college” without addressing the additional issues that come into play, starting with where you live and what your natural aptitudes are. As a side note, listing the highest median income for the four clusters of careers in the lower left could easily be misinterpreted by a user to think that every career in a cluster offers that much income potential.