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UK – Going to bad universities to study subjects no employers want – Martin Stephen
Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul’s from 2004 to 2011. He was previously High Master of Manchester Grammar School and headmaster of The Perse School. Surprised to hear that more than 20,000 graduates from the year of 2011 were still unemployed six months after they graduated? We shouldn’t be. This is a full-scale … Continue reading
Vocational and Technical Education Meet Parent Resistance
Career and technical education has come a long way since the days when students could be steered from academics into hairstyling, auto repairs or carpentry. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to sell the concept of having all students take courses in CTE, as it is known. Take what happened this March in La Jolla, … Continue reading
UK – Higher Education – The proportion of unemployed full-time first degree leavers reaches a high of 10% in 2008/09
In 2010/11 there were 224,045 full-time first degree graduates whose destinations were known, compared to 213,390 in 2009/10. In 2010/11, 63% (140,085) were in employment only and 9% (20,620) were assumed to be unemployed both showing no change since 2009/10. (See Table 1 and Chart 1.) In 2010/11, of the full-time first degree graduates whose … Continue reading
Quality of teaching and research is greatest when faculty are secure in their freedom to inquire, speak, teach and publish
At some point, discussions about the quality of higher education in the U.S. come around to the subject of tenure. And the disagreement could hardly be more stark. Critics of tenure for college professors say it is ruining the education of millions of students. In pursuit of tenure, they say, professors have become experts … Continue reading
OECD – Canada: Overall productivity has actually fallen since 2002
Canada has weathered the global economic crisis comparatively well but will have to become more productive to sustain its high standard of living, according to OECD’s latest Economic Survey of Canada… The report identifies sluggish productivity growth as the main long-term challenge facing Canada’s economy. Per capita income has increased in recent years, as more people … 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
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.
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
Higher or vocational education? A conversation on TED.com
In the last years the idea that higher education can actually be considered a bubble took shape and is increasingly brought to debate. In more and more countries there are dozens of students graduating and instead of entering the workforce, they go straight to unemployment. With some notable exceptions (like Computing, Medicine etc.) there are … 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
U.S. | College grads job prospects improving
Listen up, Class of 2012! Your shot at nailing a job is better than you think. With the economy brightening, so are the prospects for entry-level job seekers with college degrees, according to a new survey from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The country’s 1.7 million grads will benefit as companies look to … Continue reading
South Africa | For vocational training affordable, good quality vocational training
Last month, a stampede at the University of Johannesburg killed the mother of a potential student, and injured several other people writes Sarah Emily Duff, an NRF postdoctoral research fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Thousands of parents and prospective students had turned up to register – in all, around 85,000 students applied for only 11,000 places. … Continue reading
UK | Universities | An “F” on employability
Good-quality, independent careers advice has never been needed more in universities. According to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, in the final quarter of 2011, the graduate unemployment rate stood at 18.9% – almost one in five, and very slightly below the spike of 20% in the third quarter of 2010. And with … Continue reading
Pennsylvania – Economic future depends on producing more college graduates
A new report finds that the main culprit is the state’s insufficient rate of higher education. In Pennsylvania, 38.6 percent of the state’s nearly 6.7 million working-age adults hold at least a two-year degree, according to the 2010 Census data. In Somerset County that is only 24.75 percent…. “Help Wanted,” a report by the Georgetown … Continue reading
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