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Education Matters

This posting from Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant contains a number of great charts.

Immunizing your graduates from economic downturns

The conclusion is clear. Educational attainment is one way to be less susceptible to economic downturns.

The rest of the charts show other dimensions of risk for job disruption.

One chart about the rise of the creative class is worthy of much discussion in libraries. This theory proposed by Richard Florida, now at the University of Toronto, and recent keynote for the Ontario Library Association:

How are we part of the creative economy?
What role do we play?

(Hint: It's a big one.)

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on April 11, 2009 (boomark / email).