Workforce demands call for better educated employees

New jobs, retirements and other factors could create 1.3 million vacant positions between now and 2018 for which employees will need to be hired. Of those 836,000 will require some college education and 491,000 are expected to be filled by high school graduates or dropouts, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.

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The Lumina Foundation report said that college graduation rates are increasing “modestly” in Michigan right now, and at its current pace, 43 percent of Michigan adults will have degrees by 2025.

The easiest way Michigan could improve its numbers, the report said, is reducing its college-dropout rate. Right now, about 25 percent of the state’s adult population has some college, but no degree.

For a county-by-county breakdown of the percentage of college grads across Southwest Michigan, read the rest of the story.

Source: Kalamazoo Gazette