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- According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, 93 percent of college-educated freelancers say their skill training is more useful in the work they are doing now than their college training.
- Sixty-five percent of children entering primary school will end up in jobs that don’t yet exist, reveals the World Economic Forum.
- The result is a proliferation of new, nontraditional education options.
Twenty million students started college this fall, and this much is certain: The vast majority of them will be taking on debt — a lot of debt.
What’s less certain is whether their degrees will pay off.
According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, freelancers put more value on skills training: 93 percent of freelancers with a four-year college degree say skills training was useful versus only 79 percent who say their college education was useful to the work they do now. In addition, 70 percent of full-time freelancers participated in skills training in the past six months compared to only 49 percent of full-time non-freelancers.
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