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The Global Skill Gap: 38 million to 40 million fewer workers with tertiary education than employers will need
Over the past three decades, as developing economies industrialized and began to compete in world markets, a global labor market started taking shape. As more than one billion people entered the labor force, a massive movement from “farm to factory” sharply accelerated growth of productivity and per capita GDP in China and other traditionally rural … Continue reading
Higher education job growth continues to outpace overall job growth in US, but the gap is narrowing
Key findings from the report for Q1 2012: Although the growth rate of higher education jobs continued to outpace the growth rate for all U.S. jobs in Q1 2012, the gap has narrowed and the “market share” of higher education jobs was unchanged year-over-year. The number of advertisements for job openings in higher education continued … Continue reading
Economics: Among The Worst College Majors With The Highest Unemployment Rates
which degrees are the least likely to guarantee a job in 2012? According to Georgetown, here are the bottom 10, based on unemployment rates for recent graduates, cited in the study. 10. Economics Unemployment rate: 9.4 percent Starting pay: $48,000 9. Area Ethnic and Civilization Studies Unemployment rate: 10.1 percent Starting pay: $35,000 8. History … Continue reading
Gender segregation in science career | Boys have more confidence in their science ability
NO matter how much money and thought the government puts into encouraging students at all educational levels to choose the hard subjects of science and mathematics, it will be tough to overcome the “girl nerd” factor reports The Australian in ‘Girl-nerd’ factor stops women taking ‘boy’ jobs. Joanna Sikora and Artur Pokropek explore gender segregation of adolescent science … Continue reading
China education system is overtaking many Western countries
China’s results in international education tests – which have never been published – are “remarkable”, says Andreas Schleicher, responsible for the highly-influential Pisa tests. These tests, held every three years by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, measure pupils’ skills in reading, numeracy and science. Pisa tests – the Programme for International Student Assessment … Continue reading
Colleges Majors With Low Unemployment – Yahoo! Education
if you’re thinking of going back to school, here are some degrees you may want to consider. Degree #1 – Health Care Administration Degree #2 – Criminal Justice Degree #3 – Accounting Degree #4 – Marketing and Communications Degree #5 – Information Technology (IT). Source: Read More @ Colleges Majors With Low Unemployment – Yahoo! Education.
Crossroads: The Psychology of Immigration in the 21st Century
The United States today has approximately 39.9 million immigrants—the largest number in its history. As a nation of immigrants, the United States has successfully negotiated larger proportions of newcomers in its past and is far from alone among postindustrial countries in experiencing a growth in immigration in recent decades. Notably, nearly three quarters of the … Continue reading
Australia | At least 500 layoffs in TAFEs
At least 500 jobs could be slashed from Victorian TAFEs (JMM: the largest vocational education and training provider in Australia) and there are concerns schools in poorer areas will struggle under measures announced in the state budget. The government will slash spending on four in five vocational courses as part of $100 million in cuts to skills … Continue reading
Survey | Graduates in vocational subjects most likely to find advantage in looking for employment
In a recent survey, Gaby Atfield and Kate Purcell found in Futuretrack Stage 3 Working Paper 4: The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand that graduates who were studying vocational subjects were most likely to believe that the subject they had studied would be an advantage in looking for employment. Sixty per cent of respondents studying subjects allied to … Continue reading
Scholl to work transition : lessons from around the world
In a well documented paper, David Raffe, from University of Edinburgh, tells us that : The processes and outcomes of education-work transitions vary across countries and these differences tend to persist over time Institutional differences which create different national ‘logics’ largely explain these differences System reactions to pressure and theirs impacts vary. His General findings Where … Continue reading
Disinvestment in Education In North America | How do you think we’ll get by in the 21st century ?
Renowned Economist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz strongly rebuked the policy of disinvestment in education occurring in debt-laden US states, as he addressed a packed house at Victoria Street theatre in Santa Barbara on February 19 in 2010. But this is also going on in Canada and the trend seems to get worse every where since … Continue reading
As Thousand of Teachers Are Laid-off, Education Slowdown Threatens U.S. – WSJ.com
Throughout American history, almost every generation has had substantially more education than that of its parents. That is no longer true. When baby boomers born in 1955 reached age 30, they had about two years more schooling than their parents, according to Harvard University economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, who have calculated the average … Continue reading
Moving On Up: How Tuition Tax Breaks Increasingly Favor the Upper-Middle Class | Education Sector.
During the last several years, Congress and the Obama administration have made significant cuts to federal student aid funding to shore up the budget of the Pell Grant program, the primary source of government aid to low-income students. But in a new Education Sector Chart You Can Trust, Stephen Burd argues that the federal government … Continue reading
Higher Education in India | To double the enrollment ratio from 17% to 30% by the year 2020
Higher education in the country is set to get a boost with the HRD ministry finalising plans worth Rs. 80,000 crore inorder to improve access to colleges and universities. The UPA government has embarked upon an ambitious plan to double the gross enrollment ratio (GER), from present around 17% to 30% by the year 2020. For … Continue reading
University of the District of Columbia prepares layoffs
The University of the District of Columbia is preparing for wide-scale layoffs, as school officials say the District’s employee protections prevent them from axing employees they have accumulated over the last four decades. The “bloat” of employees, as one official described the situation, and relatively level funding from the District, has put the city’s only … Continue reading
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