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Stephen Downes

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It's a familiar story bolstered by a new study: post secondary education is becoming necessary for people hoping to have anything more than a basic income. The study reports "a shift in many, if not most, jobs away from low-level skills to higher level skills in line with a CRLFchanging labour market." Additionally, there is a "need for employees to gain higher order cognitive and generic skills to enable them to perform in a complex modern working environment. These skills include highly developedCRLFanalytical and research skills as well as interpersonal and human relations skills, networking and negotiation skills, computer skills and so forth." This detailed summary in PDF format (1 meg) is free. There is also a shorter HTML outline available.

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