Higher Education

Highly Educated – The Biggest Debt Problems

A new study finds that highly educated Americans were most likely to take on unmanageable debt in the pre-crisis years. What’s more, gross personal financial mismanagement occurred across the population and not just in the mortgage market and not just among the unsophisticated. The study draws a line at the point where monthly payment on household debt equals 40% … Continue reading →

Nursing Grads – More schooling may help to land jobs

The health care industry has been an employment bright spot in Sacramento and across the country as demand grows to care for a graying population. But newly minted nursing graduates are having trouble squaring that good news with their difficulties in finding work, said Anne McNamara. McNamara, dean of Grand Canyon University’s College of Nursing … Continue reading →

Higher Education – Women : 25 Countries Where Women Don’t Go To College

“In America and other well-developed countries, it’s easy to take education for granted. For most women, if you want to go to college, you can make it happen, whether it’s through student loans, scholarships, or alternative education. But around the world, millions of women and girls never have that opportunity, and often never even complete … Continue reading →

BC – Universities warn of jobs crisis

The province’s leading universities have fired a warning shot across the bow of Premier Christy Clark’s vaunted jobs agenda. Without increased government funding of postsecondary education and better financial aid for hard-pressed students, B.C. faces a bleak future of jobs going begging, according to a report presented Thursday to the legislature’s select finance committee. “This … Continue reading →

Higher Education – OECD: The role of universities and strategic partnerships in the local and global context (video)

College – Earnings – US: What different college degrees make?

“Part of the reason people go to college is to get better jobs. It’s by no means the only reason, of course; a liberal arts education can enrich a person’s life in ways besides better employment. But better employment is surely one of the crucial goals, and jobs that require college degrees generally pay better … Continue reading →

Studying beyond age 25 – The case of Australia

Why should we keep studying beyond our mid-20s? ask  Michael Coelli, Domenico Tabasso and Rezida Zakirova in Studying beyond age 25: who does it and what do they gain? (Adapted excerpts by JMM to follow) After all, education and training at a younger age provide for the longest period over which the return on the … Continue reading →

Australia – Industry skills councils a barrier to institutional progress

TERTIARY education policy is far too influenced by the institutionalised status quo rather than by principle. A classic case is relations between vocational and higher education. Vocational education was identified with TAFE institutes and higher education with universities from the mid-1970s until the mid-2000s. Since then the number and types of vocational and higher education … Continue reading →

World Bank – Brain Drain: Some myths and common concerns not founded

  “High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence.” write John Gibson and … Continue reading →

China – Graduates willing to take less for first position

More than half of college students who will graduate next year are willing to accept a monthly salary of less than 4,000 yuan ($638), according to a survey released on Saturday. The survey, conducted by renren.com, a popular social networking website which launched its job-search service for graduates in July, ran from Aug 21 to … Continue reading →

2012 World University Rankings – The Top 200

“MIT leads charge, UK enjoys strong showing, but biggest trend is increasingly international character of staff and students at world’s leading institutions” writes the guardian.co.uk in his analysis. via The top 200 QS World University Rankings 2012 | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional.

US – The increase in postsecondary enrollment was especially high

“The rising cost of college education and high unemployment levels among recent college graduates are raising the question “Is college worth its cost?” in the minds of many Americans. A recent study published by the Associated Press found that one out of every two recent college graduates is jobless or underemployed, suggesting maybe college isn’t worth the money. Yet, job losses in the … Continue reading →

Where the Skills Gap Really Resides: a huge mismatch at the middle-skill level

It is those people who have not earned the minimum of a two-year degree that Scaglione says constitute a large population of our country who are stuck in low-skilled jobs that do not require any higher education.  Low-skilled jobs that do not require a minimum of a two-year degree represent about 35 percent of all … Continue reading →

Postsecondary Education and Training Matter

  After suffering the largest share of job losses in the recession, Americans with no more than a high school education have continued to lose jobs during the sputtering recovery while better-educated people have gained millions of jobs, according to a Georgetown University study Over nearly five years of financial turmoil, Americans across a broad … Continue reading →

US – Top 7 College Degrees to be Unemployed

Not all college degrees are created equal. This is according to a recent report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The major you choose could reduce your chances of being part of the latest unemployment statistic—or make you the newest member of the club. It would be in your best interest to … Continue reading →