Fellows mentioned in this story:
Sherry Menor-McNamara
Stephen Schatz

From Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

The proportion of U.S. jobs requiring postsecondary preparation continues to inch upward, and by 2031 in Hawai‘i, 70% of job openings will require some type of education and/or training beyond high school, says a report from researchers at Georgetown University.

Jobs in the islands are projected to increase significantly, to 624,000 in 2031 from 591,000 in 2021, with an average of 72,000 job openings annually, said the report by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown.

Of those annual local job openings, 51,000 will be for workers with postsecondary credentials, 18,000 will be for those with a high school diploma and 3,000 will be for those with less than a high school diploma, the report said. More than one-third of all Hawai‘i jobs in 2031 will require at least a bachelor’s degree.

“I think there is a misconception now that there are jobs that are great right here in Hawai‘i that you can get right after high school with just a high school diploma, and that’s just not the case,” Stephen Schatz, executive director of Hawai‘i P-20 Partnerships for Education, said in a University of Hawai‘i news release.

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