PhillyInc: Study: More jobs will require higher education
Between 2008 and 2018, employment is expected to increase by 15.3 million, according to projections by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Coming after a recession that destroyed 8 million jobs, that sounds encouraging.
But a different forecast being released Tuesday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that there is a growing disconnect between the types of jobs that employers must fill and the number of Americans with the education and training to do them.
Georgetown researchers project that 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education. In all, employers will need 22 million new workers with associate's degrees or higher. Unfortunately, that's about 3 million more than the report indicates the United States is expected to produce.
In an interview, Jeff Strohl, director of research at the Center on Education and the Workforce, said the new analysis confirms that "we're moving away from our grandfather's high school-
Coming after a recession that destroyed 8 million jobs, that sounds encouraging.
But a different forecast being released Tuesday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that there is a growing disconnect between the types of jobs that employers must fill and the number of Americans with the education and training to do them.
Georgetown researchers project that 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education. In all, employers will need 22 million new workers with associate's degrees or higher. Unfortunately, that's about 3 million more than the report indicates the United States is expected to produce.
In an interview, Jeff Strohl, director of research at the Center on Education and the Workforce, said the new analysis confirms that "we're moving away from our grandfather's high school-
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