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Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings
Higher education is a source of skill acquisition for many middle- and high-skilled jobs. But what specific skills do universities impart on students to prepare them for desirable careers? In this study, we analyze a large novel corpora of over one million syllabi from over eight hundred bachelors’...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36920887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282323 |
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author | Chau, Hung Bana, Sarah H. Bouvier, Baptiste Frank, Morgan R. |
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description | Higher education is a source of skill acquisition for many middle- and high-skilled jobs. But what specific skills do universities impart on students to prepare them for desirable careers? In this study, we analyze a large novel corpora of over one million syllabi from over eight hundred bachelors’ granting US educational institutions to connect material taught in higher education to the detailed work activities in the US economy as reported by the US Department of Labor. First, we show how differences in taught skills both within and between college majors correspond to earnings differences of recent graduates. Further, we use the co-occurrence of taught skills across all of academia to predict the skills that will be taught in a major moving forward. Our unified information system connecting workplace skills to the skills taught during higher education can improve the workforce development of high-skilled workers, inform educational programs of future trends, and enable employers to quantify the skills of potential workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-100167202023-03-16 Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings Chau, Hung Bana, Sarah H. Bouvier, Baptiste Frank, Morgan R. PLoS One Research Article Higher education is a source of skill acquisition for many middle- and high-skilled jobs. But what specific skills do universities impart on students to prepare them for desirable careers? In this study, we analyze a large novel corpora of over one million syllabi from over eight hundred bachelors’ granting US educational institutions to connect material taught in higher education to the detailed work activities in the US economy as reported by the US Department of Labor. First, we show how differences in taught skills both within and between college majors correspond to earnings differences of recent graduates. Further, we use the co-occurrence of taught skills across all of academia to predict the skills that will be taught in a major moving forward. Our unified information system connecting workplace skills to the skills taught during higher education can improve the workforce development of high-skilled workers, inform educational programs of future trends, and enable employers to quantify the skills of potential workers. Public Library of Science 2023-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10016720/ /pubmed/36920887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282323 Text en © 2023 Chau et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chau, Hung Bana, Sarah H. Bouvier, Baptiste Frank, Morgan R. Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
title | Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
title_full | Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
title_fullStr | Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
title_full_unstemmed | Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
title_short | Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
title_sort | connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36920887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282323 |
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