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The March 28 FBI document alleges that a Chinese migrant named Weiyun Huang took money to issue fraudulent claims of employment to Chinese students who were seeking to get “Optional Practical Training” work permits. Huang was arrested March 26, the document says. Huang’s firm helped roughly 1,900 Chinese migrants get OPT work permits for various white-collar jobs in the United States, the document said. Other federal data shows the company got 732 OPT workers in 2017.
How Aligned is Career and Technical Education to Local Labor Markets?, co-authored by Pepperdine University associate professor Cameron Sublett and Fordham Institute senior research and policy associate David Griffith, examines whether students in high school CTE programs are more likely to take courses in high-demand and/or high-wage industries, both nationally and locally.
The U.S. tech sector added 16,000 new jobs in March, its strongest month for hiring so far this year, according to an analysis by CompTIA, the leading technology industry association. New hiring in technology services, custom software development and computer systems design led the way, growing by an estimated 11,500 new hires, CompTIA's analysis of today's Bureau of Labor Statistics "Employment Situation" report finds.
Like many industries, the defense and aerospace sector faces a talent shortage for critical STEM-based roles. With a looming workforce cliff and competition from other fields to recruit for the hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, our industry faces the alarming possibility of not being able to replace its retiring talent.
In this high-tech era where a college degree is positioned as a necessity for success, vocational education is often overlooked. But experts say that a vocational education provides the right experience for many jobs that are currently vacant. Indeed, there are 30 million jobs nationwide that don’t require a Bachelor’s Degree that pay an average of $55,000 annually, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Older workers are staying in the workforce beyond the long-accepted retirement age of 65 for several reasons, including some of them need the money and some of them just like to work. Never before have we had the need to retrain so many of our current middle-aged and older workers to ensure they have the knowledge and skills employers are looking for.
Employers increasingly are finding that veterans are the right fit for jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, according to a study by Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF). Working off data from the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau for 2012-2016, the IVMF researchers concluded that military service was a main factor contributing to job growth for veterans in emerging technology fields.
This digest highlights key statistics drawn from a variety of data sources. Data and figures in this digest are organized into the following topical areas: enrollment, field of degree, employment status, and occupation, including academic careers. Surveys conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation provided a large portion of the data used in this report. NCSES has a central role in the collection, interpretation, analysis, and dissemination of objective data on the science and engineering enterprise.
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) has released its 2019 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering (WMPD) report, which provides detailed information about participation levels in science and engineering (S&E) education and employment.
This week NASA cancelled the first-ever all-woman spacewalk. Why? Unfortunately the correct spacesuit size is unavailable to one of the female astronauts. It's disappointing news in light of it being women's history month but more so because of the urgent need to show women everywhere that we can achieve milestone accomplishments in science and technology together.