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Each year, thousands of bright, earnest young people graduate from the Moroccan higher education system. They study under the belief that education will lead to a good job, followed by upward social mobility. But each year these graduates face a dark reality: unemployment. They fall into a counter intuitive statistic--the unemployment rate in Morocco is twice as high for people with advanced degrees than those without them. What's wrong with the system?
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Each year, thousands of bright, earnest young people graduate from the Moroccan higher education system. They study under the belief that education will lead to a good job, followed by upward social mobility. But each year these graduates face a dark reality: unemployment. They fall into a counter intuitive statistic--the unemployment rate in Morocco is twice as high for people with advanced degrees than those without them. What's wrong with the system?
Broadcast History
Aired on World Vision Report on November 22nd, 2008
