American grad students hit harder by recession than those without higher education
Graduate students in the United States are having a hard time dealing with the current economic situation, reported the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (JS).
According to the JS, “New Labor Department data showed the 21-month recession is taking a greater toll on college graduates than high school dropouts.”
Since the start of the recession in December 2007 the number of unemployed school dropouts over the age of 25, rose 99 per cent to 1.8 million. Among those with bachelor’s degrees and higher, the number surpassed 2.2 million, said the JS, an increase of 136 per cent.
“It certainly has been hitting people of all education levels,” said Scott Adams, the economist at University of Wisconsin and Milwaukee. “And no longer is it the case that just having a bachelor’s degree shields you from economic downturns.”
From May to September, America has lost an average of 307,000 jobs per month, reported the SJ.
Australia soon to face staffing crisis at Universities
According to the University World News (UWN), Australian universities are soon going to be facing a major staffing crisis in the years to come.
The main cause for the staffing crisis, said the UWN, is an aging work force. Higher student enrollment and low academic satisfaction are also contributing factors when it comes to the shortage.
A report released at the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education’s international conference explained that, “Australian higher education is in danger of losing the best and brightest young academics to the private sector or to other nations.”
The UWN stated, “Over the next five years, almost one in four senior academics will retire and a further 23 per cent will follow in the subsequent five-year period — amounting to a loss of some 5,000 academic leaders across Australia.”
YouTube Edu goes global as institutions from Europe and Israel take part
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, YouTube Edu has gone international.
YouTube.com/edu, a website where universities can update lectures and other information to the web. It now has information from institutions around the world.
The Chronicle reported “45 colleges and universities from those areas, including the University of Cambridge and distance-learning institutions like the Open University of Catalonia, now have channels on the site.”
The site already has roughly200 channels from institutions all over the U.S. and Canada, enabling people all over the world to virtually attend lectures, hear public figures speak at different campuses and listen to an amateur broadcaster from a university football game.
