By 2020, there will be about 38 million to 40 million too few college and university graduates to satisfy the demands of the global labor market. |
By 2020, there will be about 38 million to 40 million too few college and university graduates to satisfy the demands of the global labor market, a report issued this month has found. At the same time, there will be a surplus of up to 95 million low-skill workers globally, according to the study, conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute. The report bases its estimates on the projection of a global work force of 3.5 billion by the year 2020, compared with 2.9 billion today. “Unemployment for less skilled workers is currently running two to three times that of those skilled workers with university or post-graduate degrees,” said Richard Dobbs, one of the authors of the report. China will have to increase its educated work force in order to fulfill its need for 23 million high-skill workers by 2020, the report said. Despite the old stereotype about arts majors, Americans and Canadians with arts degrees are by and large employed and happy with their work, according to a new report released last week by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project at Indiana University. The report, titled “A Diverse Palette,” considered degrees in performance, design, architecture, creative writing, music composition, choreography, film, illustration and fine art. It found that 87 percent of arts alumni who are working are content with their jobs, whether or not they work as artists, and that 82 percent of respondents felt they brought creativity to their jobs. The specific discipline played an important role in employability, the study suggested. For example, 82 percent of those with a dance degree said they had worked or were working as an artist. That was only true of 30 percent with art history degrees. Many arts graduates became involved in education: 57 percent of arts graduates have taught at some point in their career, and 27 percent are doing so currently, the report found. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
本月公布的最新報(bào)告顯示,到2020年,高校畢業(yè)生的數(shù)量將無法滿足就業(yè)市場的需求。屆時(shí),全球高校畢業(yè)生的缺口將達(dá)3800萬到4000萬。 由麥肯錫全球研究所最新發(fā)布的這份報(bào)告同時(shí)指出,全球低技能工人屆時(shí)將過剩9500萬人。 預(yù)計(jì)到2020年,全球勞動(dòng)力將達(dá)到35億,目前這一數(shù)字為29億。該報(bào)告的預(yù)測正是基于這一組數(shù)據(jù)對比得出的。 該報(bào)告的作者之一理查德-多布茲說:“目前低技能工人的失業(yè)率是高校畢業(yè)生出身的技術(shù)員工的2到3倍?!?/p> 報(bào)告指出,中國必須增加受過教育的勞動(dòng)力人數(shù)。到2020年,中國對此類勞動(dòng)力的需要量將達(dá)到2300萬。 根據(jù)印第安納大學(xué)國家戰(zhàn)略藝術(shù)校友項(xiàng)目中心上周發(fā)布的最新報(bào)告,盡管人們對人文藝術(shù)類專業(yè)存在偏見,但美國和加拿大的人文藝術(shù)類畢業(yè)生基本全部就業(yè),而且對工作很滿意。 這份報(bào)告名為《多樣的調(diào)色板》,談及表演、設(shè)計(jì)、建筑、創(chuàng)意寫作、作曲、舞蹈、電影、插圖、美術(shù)等專業(yè)。調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn),不論是否成為了藝術(shù)家,87%的人文藝術(shù)類畢業(yè)生都對他們的工作很滿意。82%的人表示,工作中充滿創(chuàng)造性。 調(diào)查顯示,具體學(xué)科對就業(yè)非常重要。比如,82%有舞蹈學(xué)位的人表示他們曾經(jīng)或者正在從事藝術(shù)工作。而在有藝術(shù)史學(xué)位的受訪者中這一數(shù)字僅有30%。很多人文藝術(shù)類畢業(yè)生從事教育工作:57%的人文藝術(shù)類畢業(yè)生曾從教,27%的畢業(yè)生目前正從事這一職業(yè)。 相關(guān)閱讀 蓋茨擬推出“情緒手鐲” 學(xué)生狀態(tài)一戴便知 美8歲女生獲“災(zāi)難獎(jiǎng)” 因不完成作業(yè)理由最多 (中國日報(bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯:Helen) |
Vocabulary: by and large: 大體上;基本上;總的說來 discipline: 學(xué)科 |