Teach them math but social skills first. Social skills play a much bigger role in job growth than math alone, based on this analysis by David Deming of Harvard University, for data spanning 1980-2012. As the world increasingly moves towards automation, the labor market rewards social skills more than other skills, even more than skills from… Read More »
Highly educated lowly paid. Post-doctoral salaries are even lower than the median household earnings in US, despite years of toiling to get there. Most people starting a PhD dream of working in academia without realizing the years of post-doctoral roles needed to get there. What they also don’t realize are the measly salaries despite such… Read More »
STEM is strong. PhDs earn some of the highest salaries right out of college. But certainly not the same for men and women. This set of data collected by the National Science Foundation for those completing their PhDs in 2016 shows it matters a lot what field you specialize in. While business management PhD pays the… Read More »
Passport power. Number of countries that allow visa free entry (or visa on arrival) for various passports. Life of a traveler can be very different depending on what passport he or she holds. Germans can get into 161 different countries before applying for a visa, while those in US and Canada have that privilege to… Read More »