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25 03, 2025

Rolling humanities (Humanities Indicators)

2025-03-25T16:33:11-04:00March 25th, 2025|Academia, Arts, education, Everything Else, History, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Rolling humanities: new data show how students choose a humanities major during their college years, if not at the outset. From the study: In recent years, the Humanities Indicators staff has received numerous questions about whether college students who start a humanities degree are more or less likely to finish it than those who [...]

30 08, 2016

Sifting through and sifting out: ways employers are testing the college degree (Ryan Craig, EdSurge)

2016-08-29T20:12:43-04:00August 30th, 2016|2016, Academia, August, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Sifting through and sifting out: ways employers are testing the college degree. Do employers (and students) expect too much from university education, or too little? From the article: According to the Gallup-Lumina survey, only 11 percent of employers think graduating students have the skills that their businesses need. It’s not as though degree holders are only falling [...]

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