What forces compel today’s high school graduates to attend particular colleges and pursue specific careers – passions, aptitudes, geography, genealogy, social networks, social media influences, guidance counseling, luck, economic prospects? I was fortunate to grow up near the campus of an outstanding Midwestern U.S. college – Purdue University. My father and mother owned and operated a […]
Education
A January 2016 World Economic Forum report entitled The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, authored by Till Alexander Leopold, Vesselina Ratcheva and Saadia Zahidi, presents an interesting picture of the “future labour market from the perspective of some of the worlds’s … 100 largest global employers.”[1. Background on the report’s […]