Business-school graduates note that a job at investment banks often lasts only until the first bump in the market.
American college graduates, notes Mr. Schleicher, perform worse than their peers elsewhere: "looking at certificates, the United States looks much better than looking at skills".
Writing this week in The Washington Post, Melinda Henneberger, a Notre Dame graduate, noted that "my alma mater held the kind of emotional news conference for the fake dead girl they never held for the real one, Lizzy Seeberg".
"The qualities one would aspire for in a work-force suitable to meet the challenges of today's economy are all those found in a music graduate," noted one commentator.
By contrast, another white graduate noted that school officials looked at students' slides and paintings without knowing the race of the student.
The Menton Media Med at the Palais de l'Europe was organized by the Club de la Presse Méditerranée 06, with support from Sciences Po, an Ivy League-type French university that has graduated noted journalists and politicians, and the city of Menton.
And in pretty much every country where taxpayers pay for higher education, new students will find teaching is skimpier.A country can still waste its graduates, notes Mr Schleicher.
As suggested by Esmail and Roberts, 14 racial bias in such examinations cannot be ruled out entirely, especially given that non-white UK graduates were noted to have performed more poorly on the clinical skills assessment component, even allowing for achievement on the knowledge based portion of the examination.
Fifteen years after graduating, they noted, "better-looking midcareer attorneys were billing at higher rates, not just billing more hours".
