Demographics, Education: Nearly half of Americans think college education is now less important
With the shrinking young cohort, labor is in short supply. A college degree is no longer needed to compete for great jobs.
Demographics, Education: CA schools to see 12% enrollment decline in next ten years
Ouch - California's shrinking school enrollment.
Business: Do employers really not care what degree you have?
Half of employed college grads say they work in fields that require no college degree, so yes, kind of. But that's not the thrust of this story.
Demographics, Business: Veterinarians needed
About 70% of practicing veterinarians are, today, female, and over 80% of veterinary students are female. We don't hear about these gender imbalances.
Global, Business, Education: To improve salary and workplace competitiveness, learn another language
International/global experiences and skills, and speaking another language, increase opportunities and salary.
Education: Educational attainment over time
Did you know that as of about 1970, half of U.S. adults had not finished high school? Or that today, 4x more people have a 4 year degree than did…
Education: The mysteries of loan forgiveness
Random X post celebrates his $8k education loan paid off by taxpayers. He attended expensive Uni, owns a $560k home and is Comm Director for a Congressional Representative.
Education, demographics: Even graduate degree programs are flat topping
With nearly half of Master degrees having a negative ROI, university grad programs are about to get hit hard, particularly due to the smaller young population.
Demographics: University of Memphis enrollment decline
The fertility rate collapse is starting to show up in college admissions, as expected.
Demographics: No one rides a bike to school anymore
As kids, we rode our bikes to school – and everywhere else. I continued to ride to college and my work, all the way up to about age 30 (then…