Is Tertiary Education A Guarantee To A Well-paid Job???

Despite a large increase in tertiary education numbers, New Zealand’s productivity growth is lower than that of most other OECD nations, and the earnings premium of New Zealand graduates is below the OECD average.

So why don’t New Zealand graduates earn more?

Having read the above extract (read details here), what are your thoughts?

I may interpret it incorrectly but I guess what the author wants to say is engineers, technologists and scientists are well paid jobs and so if the school leavers want to make a good living they shall study these subjects in the universities.

Here are my thoughts