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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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Community and business groups around the country share the same fear. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”. We’re just triaging.”

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

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The report challenges colleges to increase the percentage of students from all demographic groups entering college and earning degrees. Fueling the decline will be decreases in the overall student population and growth among specific student groups. The number of whites is slated to decline by 14 percent between 2013 and 2030.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

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West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. He was among the first group of McDowell County, West Virginia, high school students to receive a home visit.

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

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They’re even less likely than boys from many racial minority groups to go to college. That’s now the job of people like this student, Jacob Hood, 21, who takes a small group of runners outside to a lighted track beside the noisy A13 carriageway. The root of this problem, in the U.K., It’s taking too long, though,” she quipped.

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How higher education lost its shine

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As the football and girls’ soccer teams sweated through summer practice on the athletics fields at LaVergne High School, a small group of adult advisers inside shared tales of their own ordeals. Sources: Strada Education Network, ECMC Group, Gallup. LA VERGNE, Tenn. — This story also appeared in NBC News.

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

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“It is of concern for the exact reason that we had concern 30 years ago about women not being represented in higher education in a fair way, or in the United States about ethnic groups and people of different backgrounds” not going to college, he said he tells them. It’s not a topic very high on the agenda. This is a very slow process.”.

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