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本帖最后由 HeartSutra 于 2015-9-1 22:19 编辑
这是安省大学议会自己搞的调研当然有招生广告的意味。看看今天九月一日MONEY SENSE刚发表的文章吧,题目叫消逝的加拿大中产阶级,这篇文章写得很客观,其中一段关于新毕业学生的就业和经济状况:
http://www.moneysense.ca/planning/the-elusive-middle-class/
“While factory workers are clinging by their fingernails to a middle-class lifestyle, there’s another group that is having a heck of a lot of trouble getting there in the first place. Andrew Crozier has been living with his parents in Etobicoke, Ont., since finishing an economics and finance co-op program at the University of Guelph in 2013, followed by a college certificate in advertising copy-writing. Since then, he’s been working at unpaid internships. “I’ve done five or six of them, but never a full-time job,” he says. At one point, Crozier worked at No Frills to earn some cash. “I was a university graduate with a finance degree and I was stocking shelves all day,” he says. “Someone would say, ‘Can you find me some Dunkaroos?’ and all I could think was, ‘What am I doing?’”
In spite of Crozier’s experience, education levels have been rising in Canada. According to StatsCan, the proportion of adults with a college diploma or a university degree rose to 50% from 39% between 1999 and 2009. And student debt levels are rising in concert, ranging from an average of $13,000 per student in Quebec to $28,000 in Ontario and the Maritimes. Young people are “having trouble landing that first good job,” says Cross. In fact, fully a third of 25- to 29-year-old post-secondary grads are working low-skilled jobs in Canada—the highest number of any member nation of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation. “It could be that employers are saying that despite all this education, young people don’t possess the skills that they want,” says Cross. In other words, they’re not getting the degrees that match the employment opportunities available.”
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