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US / Student Financial Aid / Neediest students to pay more than their families’ yearly earnings
“With their relentless pursuit of prestige and revenue, the nation’s public and private four-year colleges and universities are in danger of shutting down what has long been a pathway to the middle class for low-income and working-class students” writes Stephen Burd in Undermining Pell – How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind … Continue reading
US Grads / Being overqualified, they express regrets finds McKinsey
McKinsey partnered with Chegg Inc. to conduct a survey that gauges the attitudes of more than 4,900 recent graduates on a range of issues. The mix included attendees of four-year and two-year private and public colleges, as well as vocational and for-profit institutions. The survey primarily focused on students who graduated between 2009 and 2012, … Continue reading
India / Employability / Classle launches ‘Ready Steady Jobs’
Classle has launched Ready Steady Jobs, a programme to tackle the employability issue. The training, according to Vaidya Nathan, Chief Executive and Founder of Classle, would consist of a series of video tutorials, discussions and assignments, targeted at helping students develop the skills required to land a satisfying job. ‘It is open to students across … Continue reading
US / There is no shortage of STEM workers says the Economic Policy Institute
In a new EPI paper, Hal Salzman of Rutgers, Daniel Kuehn of American University and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University find little evidence to support expansion of high-skill guestworker programs as proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate. Contrary to many industry claims, the study finds that U.S. colleges and universities … Continue reading
Higher Education / Gender equality must be made a global priority
Around one in five UK university professors are female. That’s better than 3%, which was the figure in 1989. But it’s nowhere near parity – and in many parts of the world, the number of women working at the top level of academia or in senior university management positions is far worse. The failure of … Continue reading
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced … Continue reading
China / More than 95 percent of graduates from polytechnics or vocational schools have a job
The employment rate for graduates from polytechnics or vocational schools is more than 95 percent, higher than that for their college counterparts, according to a report by the Ministry of Education on middle-level vocational education. The message is such schools provide the right people with the right skills for enterprises and they meet the needs … Continue reading
Germany / Just 2.2 percent of graduates had no work in 2011
All that cramming and hard work might pay off after all: German graduates are practically guaranteed a job – current figures show nearly full employment among those who have an academic degree. Just 2.2 percent of graduates had no work in 2011 according to figures issued on Tuesday by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) … Continue reading
Quebec / The Summit on Higher Education: The losers are youth holders of vocational and technical degrees
Quebec / The Summit on Higher Education: The losers are youth holders of vocational and technical degrees
Affirmative Action Bans / The Impact most pronounced in engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences
“The consideration of race as an affirmative factor in higher education admissions decisions remains the target of legal challenges and public debate” writes Liliana M. Garces in Understanding the Impact of Affirmative Action Bans in Different Graduate Fields of Study. (Quotes to follow) A new challenge to the constitutionality of the practice is now being considered by … Continue reading
US / Almost half of employed college graduates are in jobs requiring less than college education
“Political leaders, prominent foundations, and college presidents have argued that the nation must increase the proportion of adults with college degrees in order for America to remain competitive in the global economy” write Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, and Jonathan Robe in Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed? University Enrollments and Labor-Market Realities (Adapted quotes to follow). Supporting those … Continue reading
China / Only 29 percent of the graduate students master’s degrees have found jobs
As the Spring Festival is coming to an end, graduate students may find it harder to get a desirable job than usual, as a recent survey shows that only 29 percent of students with master’s degrees have secured jobs, down from last year. A survey conducted from December last year to January 2013 by My … Continue reading
Ontario / Graduates of applied and technical programs obtain higher earnings within 2 years those of liberal arts
Kristyn Frank & David Walters examine the influence that field of study and level of post-secondary education have on the earnings of recent graduates in Ontario in Exploring the Alignment Between Post-Secondary Education Programs and Earnings: An Examination of 2005 Ontario Graduates. Graduates of trades, community college, and university programs are compared. Results suggest that graduates of … Continue reading
Unprepared For College – Infographics
Although 80% of students graduating high school think they are ready for college once they have their diplomas, the reality does not reflect this confidence. If students base their visions of college on the pop culture representation in movies like Van Wilder or Old School, they are in for a shock when their first week … Continue reading
US / Education Matters: Community College
The “jobs gap”—or number of jobs needed to return to pre–Great Recession levels—stood at 11.3 million in late 2012, while 12.8 million Americans were unemployed. Carnevale, Smith, and Strohl (2010), however, estimated 46.8 million new jobs will need to be filled by 2018, of which 13.8 million will be new jobs and 33 million will … Continue reading
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