(b) The proportion of urban kindergarten teachers above associate bachelor = The number of urban kindergarten teachers above associate bachelor ÷ The total number of urban kindergarten teachers × 100%; The proportion of rural kindergarten teachers above associate bachelor = The number of rural kindergarten teachers above associate bachelor ÷ The total number of rural kindergarten teachers × 100%.
As I wrote in an earlier post, in 2011, the unemployment rate for people in their 20s with college degrees or more education was 5.7 percent (for those whose highest credential was no more than a bachelor's, the number was 5.8 percent).
It retains the Gillard government's 2012 decision to remove previous limits on bachelor degree student numbers, but will ditch plans to extend this demand-driven system to diplomas and associate degrees from non-university providers, like private colleges.
A related calculation is the number of bachelor's degrees awarded per 21-year-old in the United States.
From 1977 to 1997, the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to black men increased by 30percentt, while the number increased by 77percentt for black women.
The number of bachelor's degrees in computer science awarded in the United States has been declining for a decade, to 24,800 in 1995 from 42,200 in 1986.
Between 2000-01 and 2011-12, the number of bachelor degrees awarded by for-profit institutions in the US grew by 476%, compared to 39% at public institutions.
Doubling the Pell Grant would probably increase the number of bachelor's degree recipients by about 300,000 to 400,000 students a year.
While the number of bachelor's degrees granted in computer science has been growing for the last several years, 2010's figure, the most recent available, was still 33 percent lower than at the peak in 2004, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
