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‘Degree inflation’: How the four-year degree became required

BBC examines the need to tackle Degree Inflation in order to reboot the economy and close the degree gap.

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“The degree gap – the discrepancy between the demand for a college degree in job postings and the employees who are currently in that job who have a college degree – is significant. For example, in 2015, 67% of production supervisor job postings asked for a college degree, while only 16% of employed production supervisors had one.”

Manjari Raman
Director of Harvard Business School’s project on Managing the Future of Work

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