(From pressdemocrat.com) By 2025, a new study says, more than 40 percent of the jobs in California will require at least a bachelor’s degree.
But if current trends continue, the researchers say, barely a third
of adults will have college diplomas, a shortfall of about a million
people. At the same time, the number of high school graduates will
outnumber jobs for people with that level of education.
Worse
yet, the report by the Public Policy Institute of California was
completed before it was clear just how much was going to be cut from
higher education in the state budget.
Sonoma State University President Ruben Armiñana put the cuts in stark terms.
“Next
year, the system will have 40,000 students less than it has today,” he
recently told Staff Writer Kerry Benefield. “Forty thousand is about
six Sonoma States.”
Fees for the remaining students will be 30
percent higher than last year, and fewer classes will be available.
That means fewer opportunities for people to develop the skills needed
for good jobs and to start new companies.
The wage gap is at a
record level, with those holding college diplomas earning on average
twice as much as high school graduates. In the current recession, high
school graduates are more than twice as likely as college graduates to
be unemployed.
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