SEO Headline (Max 60 characters)
Report: Need Grows for Postsecondary Health Care Training
June 22, 2012
Low productivity and growing demand in the health care sector will lead to millions of new jobs in the next eight years, according to a study -- called Healthcare -- released Thursday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The study, one of several put out by the group about the current and future shape of the employment market and the implications for the education system, identified the following ways higher education will be affected by this growing sector demand:
- A bachelor's degree will be required for 24 percent of all health care jobs in 2020, up from 21 percent in 2010. The study noted that the demand for postsecondary talent in health care trails only science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and education occupations.
- A graduate degree will be required for 28 percent of all health care jobs -- the second-highest proportion of all occupations.
- Between 1992 and 2008, the proportion of staff nurses with a bachelor's degree increased from 31 percent to 40 percent. This shift toward bachelor's degrees will crowd members of some minority groups out of the nursing profession: Compared to white and Asians Americans, African-American and Hispanic nurses are more likely to have a diploma or associate degree than a bachelor's degree in nursing.
- There is a strong correlation between socioeconomic status and access to medical school.
- The medical field remains disproportionately white and Asian, even though access is improving for members of other minority groups.
Trending Stories
THE Campus
Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education.
- Challenges and opportunities of the 60-year curriculum
- Take care over sharing: guiding student teams on collaboration
- Everything you always wanted to know about open-book exams – but were afraid to ask
- How to encourage gender equity in interdisciplinary research
- Are block teaching and universal design for learning compatible?
Most Shared Stories
- Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT
- More colleges will likely face closure in 2023, experts say
- Share Best Practices and Strategies to Promote Student Success | Inside Higher Ed
- Faculty member issues dire warning to grad students about jobs
- There were real victims in the admissions scandal (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Could Win at the Supreme Court