Fetching items from structured fields

Hi,
is it possible to get more fine grained items from the structured profile fields, like educations and positions?

I'm thinking of using the module to prefill CCK fields with LinkedIn information when user creates a certain node. Simple fields like first and last name work well with this, but I'm currently stuck with more complex fields.

For example,

global $user;
$account = user_load($user->uid);
return array(0 => array('value' => $account->linkedin['educations']['value']));

gets me a HTML-formatted list of user's educations which is defined in the template. The problem is that I'd like to get individual items in the list, like school name and the start and end years.

Thanks.