Essay offers a valediction for the liberal arts
As reported in Liberal Arts at the Brink, between 1987 and 2008, the percentage of graduates from the top 225 private liberal arts colleges with vocational -- not liberal arts -- majors tripled, from less than 10 percent to almost 30 percent.
Challenges for young professionals in South Africa - Bank.
jobs lost. Five years later we are barely back to the levels of employment achieved before the crisis. The official unemployment rate stands at 25,6 per cent, while youth unemployment is 52,8 per cent. It is probably true to say that the longer a young. increased from 28,5 in 2002 to 38; and, on average, European graduates now expect to. African university graduates more than doubled to about 1,1 million between 1995 and 2012,... of general business confidence.
UK Manufacturers: optimistic despite ���poorly prepared��� youngsters
The 2015 Annual Manufacturing report, published by The Manufacturer magazine, finds the UK manufacturing sector in broadly positive territory. Confidence is well up since the post-2008 downturn and a range of investment projects are now being .
Where have the Lower Shores workers gone?
Recent college and high school graduates, former stay-at-home moms and dads, people who got hired after they had given up trying to land a job ��� all and more pushed their way against the tide of labor dropouts. When all was said. He remains.
Entrepreneurship Training Initiative Sparks Increased Small.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched its 2015 Emerging Leaders executive-level training series in 48 cities and communities across the country. The initiative has. There are 22 new cities joining the initiative for the first time, including Birmingham, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Puerto Rico and Providence.. Graduates of the initiative have measurably increased their revenue, and helped create jobs and drive economic growth in their local communities.���.
The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends. - Iza
The American High School. Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels. James J. Heckman. University of Chicago and IZA. Paul A. LaFontaine. American Bar Foundation. Discussion Paper No. 3216. December 2007. IZA. P.O. Box 7240.. high school graduates. For the first time, alternative credentials, such as General Educational. Development (GED) certificates and certificates of attendance, were to be explicitly excluded from state and local graduation calculations (United States��.
Sustained, high joblessness causes lasting damage to.
The median working-age household saw an income decline of $2,700 from 2007 to 2009, on the heels of one of the worst business cycles (2000-07) on record for income or employment gains.. Racial disparities are also apparent in unemployment rates even among those with a college degree: in the first six months of 2011 unemployment was 4.6% among white college graduates but 6.5% and 8.6% among, respectively, Hispanic and African-American college��.
Alumni from Michigans University Research Corridor.
Michigans University Research Corridor (URC) is proving to be a powerful business incubator for students and alumni, playing a dramatically increased role in nurturing start-up efforts and providing a boost to aspiring entrepreneurs,. universities that make up the URC ��� Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University -- have started or acquired businesses at double the national average rate among college graduates since 1996.
Hispanics and education: A Texas-sized challenge for states
States are beginning to highlight that gap as a serious problem in an economy that is generating more jobs for educated workers and fewer jobs for high school graduates, let alone high school dropouts. ���Its not just the. Business leaders also are.
Creating Jobs, Wealth Through Virile Entrepreneurial Devt
Meanwhile, ILO noted that in spite of the positive developments in the jobs market, much remains to be done, adding that unemployment rate is 24% with youth unemployment accounting for 38% of total unemployment, while the country also ranks low.
Health-care students at Missoula College find jobs aplenty
. same time frame, an increase of 738,400 jobs. A national emphasis on preventative care, growing rates of chronic conditions such as diabetes and obesity, and ���baby boomers��� who are living longer, more active lives have all led to an increased.
1.8 Million 2013 Four-Year College Grads Entering.
Engineering and technology graduates are likely to experience some of the shortest post-graduation job search times.. ���While technology graduates always seem to be in demand, we are also seeing increased demand among those with concentrations in business, health services, education, and communications.. Students graduating this spring from the University of Colorado in Boulder can enter a local job market with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent.
Graduate Employment in the UK - Iza - Forschungsinstitut.
standards. This is consistent with the demand for graduates rising in line with the increased supply. The second strand is the literature on over-education which suggests that a substantial proportion of the working population is mismatched in the.. probability of graduates being employed in graduate or non-graduate jobs is changing over time. We use the Labour Force Survey (LFS) 1993-2005 to estimate the probability that a graduate will be employed in a non-graduate occupation.
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In particular, the labor market has been gradually improving and the unemployment rate has declined somewhat. But unemployment remains quite high, particularly among minorities, the young, and those with less education.
Overall employment rate among local uni grads remains high: survey
OVERALL employment rates among the graduates of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Management University (SMU) remain high, the latest Joint Graduate Employment Survey conducted by the three.
The Uses and Abuses of University �� thewalrus.ca
The countrys participation rate (the percentage of the population between the ages of twenty and twenty-four), which had been 2.8 percent in 1930, multiplied nearly nine times; by 2009, it had reached 25 percent. Illustration by Graham Roumieu.. to 300,000 jobs since 2008. Although university graduates are less likely to be unemployed than those with only a high school diploma, this is because they end up accepting jobs that require a lower level of education.
The new cool cities for Millennials
Baltimore ��� When Clara Gustafson, a recent graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., told her friends that she was moving to Baltimore, a lot of them looked at the 24-year-old as if she were crazy. ���Youre. And she was thrilled when.
Chinas Funemployed Grads Gnaw On the Old
XIAN, China -- They dont want to work in factories or farms, but at the same time, the white-collar lifestyle remains far out of reach. For the 7.27 million. Its just ruthless out here, said Wu Shaomei, a chemistry masters student at Northwest University in Xian, as she surveyed the crowds of college grads vying for telemarketing jobs at a local job fair last week. Everywhere. china job fair. A low-level headhunter hangs advertisements on his bicycle at a Xian job fair.
March 2013 - Promise of Berkeley
Business. Retaining its 7th place rank in business for the sixth consecutive year,. Berkeley is the top-ranked public business school among the 448 full-time MBA programs surveyed. Besides peer assessment, indicators include mean GPA. rates. Among specialty rankings in business,. Berkeleys best scores were 1st in part-time. MBA, 4th in non-profit organizations and 6th in entrepreneurship. Berkeley is the top-ranked public university in Engineering and.
Job placement rates vary by school after graduation - The.
The University of Mississippi has established an average job placement rate of 85 percent in 2013 in almost all of its schools and departments, according to the 2013 Annual Survey Report. Out of the seven. The schools with the lowest job placement rates among the seven schools were The Meek School of Journalism and the School of Education.. The job placement for graduates employed by the Mississippi Department of Education has increased since 2010.
Minimum wage panel offers local opinion
���I really feel like I learned something in these discussions, and actually my attitude about minimum wage has changed,��� said Chris Summers, a business administration student who attended Deliberative Democracy Day as an extra credit opportunity for a.
David Cameron: Unemployed young should do community work
Those aged between 18 and 21 who have not been in employment, education or training, known as Neets, for six months would no longer receive jobseekers allowance (JSA). Instead, they would be paid the youth allowance, paid at the same rate as JSA .
Report: South Urgently Needs an Infrastructure of Opportunity
The time-worn descriptions of Southern dichotomies���Old South versus New South, affluent urban versus poor rural���do not fully capture the complex set of challenges now facing Southern policy makers, civic and business leaders, and engaged. ���The fact that children who grow up in low-income families in Atlanta and Raleigh fare poorly is perhaps especially striking because these cities are generally considered to be booming cities in the South with relatively high rates of job��.
Seizing a second chance: More adults going back to school to earn degrees
. which could explain the ongoing trend of more adults returning to college. Between 2000 and 2012, the number of people 25 and older attending college increased by more than 2.1 million, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Men, Fathers, and Work-Family Balance
At the same time, according to the Center for American Progress, 40.9 percent of mothers are the sole or primary breadwinners for their family and another 22.4 percent are co-breadwinners, meaning they bring home between 25 percent and 49 percent of.
Bill Gates on The Verge: Can online classrooms help the developing world catch.
Theres no single definition for what constitutes a MOOC: some academics have split the term into connectivist cMOOCs ��� which emphasize learning among a loose network of students ��� and more centralized xMOOCs, which are often traditional college.
All minimum-wage hikes are not created equal
A new Bluegrass Institute report by Western Kentucky University economist Brian Strow suggests the consequences of raising the minimum wage are more severe in some parts of the country ��� and among certain demographic groups ��� than others. Strow.
Business of Law Survey Paints Mixed Picture - University of.
A mid-summer online survey of UVA Law alumni shows that the economic downturn is clouding the business and culture of the nations law firms and in-house legal departments. Over 95 percent of all legal employment sectors report��.
Tunisia: High rate of unemployment among Youth and women
Their unemployment rate increased from 18.7% in 2007 to 23.3% in 2010 and 33.2% in 2012. Masters graduates (with a masters degree or have successfully completed four years of university education) constitute 56.7% of��.
Education is Not the Cure for High Unemployment or for.
Another version of the skills mismatch is also being told about the future: we face an impending skills shortage, particularly a shortfall of college graduates, after the economy returns to full employment... The ���Beveridge curve��� describes the historical relationship between unemployment and job openings, and allows one to predict how high or low the unemployment rate should be given a certain number of job openings... Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Coming back from recession
Its one slow step at a time. Thats essentially what Chamber of Commerce officials stressed last week following a report that the unemployment rate in Santa Maria remains one of the highest in Santa Barbara County, with 9 percent of the eligible.
Millennials wont lose recession scars anytime soon
Whats more, the jobs theyre clinging too are probably wrong for them. One studyled by Ohio University professor emeritus Richard Vedder found that a larger share of graduates have taken jobs that require less than a college education. Vedders.