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College Hiring Dips, But Most Employers Will Maintain or Increase Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The research shows industries with large decreases in hiring this year include chemical (pharmaceutical) manufacturers, which planned a hiring increase of slightly more than 30% last year but expect to decrease hiring by almost 13% for the Class of 2024. this year compared to -4.6% last year), utilities (0.3% compared to -16.6%).

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The difficulty of making a successful transition from school to the workforce remains one of the most persistent problems in higher education. Fernando Rodriguez-Valls, an associate professor of secondary education at Cal State Fullerton and the director of the project. Rodriguez-Valls has high hopes.

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Breathing with double lungs: How higher education can thrive in a changing market

University Business

Higher education is at a crossroads that demands immediate action: We must innovate with new revenue streams or face the adverse effects of an impending enrollment cliff. I think of these lungs as Core Education and Education Expanded. Few institutions in higher education are successfully implementing these concepts.

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Study Abroad Program Locations that Offer Economics Classes

AIFS Abroad

Home to world-class universities, you’ll receive top-tier global education in a diverse and dynamic environment. Additionally, Buenos Aires’ diverse economy, with strengths in sectors like agriculture and manufacturing, contributes to its significance in regional and global economic discussions and developments.

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Workplace Learning: A Follow-up

eLiterate

” I suspect we have a complementary problem with the competency movement in higher education, particularly where it claims to intersect with job skills. Educators, seeing that students are not using the products they are assigning, rely less on them, for example by replicating the reading in class lectures. But I can only guess.