“Disturbing disconnect” between parents’ careers advice to children and job market

One in 10 of 2,000 parents said they would “actively discourage” their kids from digital jobs such as coding. But 38% said they would advise their children to take up law or medicine, said O2, which commissioned the study.

Read the BBC News article on the study.

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