Under-skilled: Arts Degree Overproduction?

The apparent paradox of Canadians being among the most educated people in the world and Canadian businesses facing continuous skills shortages will take multiple blog posts and some time to investigate. Fortunately, there appears to be one widespread public claim that can be easily dismissed. This claim is the system overproduces what are called useless

Over-educated and Under-skilled

Canadians like to pride ourselves on our highly educated population. However, the country struggles to train its people in marketable and other practical skills. How is such a contrast possible? Let’s start with some education data to illustrate the contrast. The data shown below is from the OECD, for Canada and eight of our peer