Companies are moving into higher ed

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Employers have begun taking matters of higher education into their own hands “at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining,” Wired writes. Some companies like Microsoft (LinkedIn’s parent), “impatient with the speed of change,” have created their own courses and brought them to universities and online programs like edX to help churn out workers with the skills needed to thrive in an ever-changing workplace. In particular, those with data and computer science skills are in demand — colleges are only producing roughly 28,000 computer science graduates per year (per 2015 data from Deloitte), but it’s predicted that 1.8 million jobs requiring data and computer science skills will be created between 2014 and 2024, according to CompTIA.