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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

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Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We That usually means she’s not enrolled any more.”. We had some momentum,” Ward said.

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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

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The Asian-American and Pacific Islander student body is set to increase by 30 percent from 2013 to the early 2030s, reaching nearly 60,000 graduates. The number of whites is slated to decline by 14 percent between 2013 and 2030. But there are fewer and fewer of those students as a percentage of the total.”

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

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By the time they’re 11, researchers observe, these boys feel little motivation to work hard in school, with few examples in their lives of men who went to college, and little hope they can afford what seem to them to be unaffordable fees. In the U.S.,

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How higher education lost its shine

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billion worth of federal loans borrowed by students of the defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges, for example. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education in June discharged $5.8 When things start getting complicated, they’re done.”.

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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

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While men still predominate in engineering and computer science, for example, they won’t go into nursing; 98 percent of nurses here are women, at a time when the need for nurses is rising and the Icelandic Nurses’ Association says the number of new nurses graduating from colleges has fallen well below the number heading toward retirement.

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Is California saving higher education?

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It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. That’s one way it’s trying to increase the number of transfer students, for example — especially from its community colleges — accepted by both public and private universities.