Interesting article detailing what many of us in higher education have known for a long time. In the long-rung (5-10 years out of school) those with a general education—or with both a specific and general education—fair better in their careers.

Job ready university degrees may not be the tertiary education solution we are hoping for: Rosemary Barnes

"My arts degree focused on core theoretical concepts and skills and very little on the kind of specific tasks you might expect to perform in a job.

As an arts student, I gained critical thinking and logic skills, and practised applying them to a variety of issues until they were deeply embedded in the way I now interpret and interact with the world.

In engineering, the focus was partly on learning core concepts, like physics and maths, but with an important second focus on the idea of "job readiness". I learnt actual tasks that we could be expected to use in a future job.

Job readiness was emphasised more and more as I progressed through my five years at university."(full article)