ENROLMENT UP

OITAWA (CUP) —Just as campus administrators began to worry about declining enrol- ment. along came the tail end of the baby born and the ’Surmer of Unanployment. ‘ Recoiling frun‘ the worst job market in 45 years, . Canadian students have enrolled in courses this fall in record numbers.

Stats. Canada predicts that full-time university and college enrolment will reach 693,000, up 19,000 frcm 1981—82. Including part-time students, more than on million Canadians now attend post-secondary institutions.

Overall unemployment for 15 to 24 year—olds jumped ’fmn 11.8 per cent in July 1981 to 19.6 per cent a year later. But among people in the same age gmip with a university degree it only rose frcm 6.8 to 10 per cent. For 15 to 24 year-olds with a college diploma, unenployment rose much more rapidly in the same period, fran 5.7130 13.6 per cent.

"With more education it is easier to find a job," said Zsigmord. "But this does not mean that all those with a diplcma or degree will find an appropriate job according to their education."

The startling story . Zsigmond said the better caning out of this fall's .educated are the less registration iS'the reversal educated out of work in the of the usual enrolment scramble for a pattern: for the first time number of jobs. Youth unan- in years, university enrohnent9ployment rates are dramatically has increased faster than higher among less educated college enrolment. groups. In July, a staggering

Full-time university 34 per cent of 15 to 24 year enrolment will be 414,000, olds with a grade eight or less up 3.2 per cent frcm 1981—82. education were unenployed. according to Stats. Canada. He said that during a Full-time college inroment is recession more people upgrade

expected to reach 279,000,

up almost two per cent. Zoltan Zsigmond, a

Stats. Canada researcher,

their education to increase their job prospects.

He said the proportion of people attending Alberta

in programs like carmerce and

A smaller factor in this

student aid will be major

determinants of next year's

year's enrolment increase was

the movement of the tail end of the baby boom through post-secondary institutions,

said Zsigmond.

Many people have the mistaken impression that the baby boon has already passed through the 18 to 24 age bracket, but the largest mmber of births in Canadian history was in 1959.

The birth rate went into

the 1930's.

He said that post— seoondary education is much more affordable now than it was in the last period of very high unemployment, Because of this, today's students are more likely to ranain in school longer, he said.

’ So the long—awaited

a steep decline in the early enrolment decline renains. 1960's, so enrolment should But the unemployment crisis

presunably start to fall

after 1982-83. ' said the state of the econcmy ZSlgmond.

and the availabilitv of

Jim 0 US

"By 1985 for sure."

will only postpone the decline But Zsignnnd' for a year or one, said

—7 I

said university enrolment is universities declined during increasing faster because the econcmic boom there people with university degrees because well—paying jobs were are weathering the recession available to people holding much better than people with only bachelor's degrees. college diplomas. And both with the collapse of the groups are more likely to moan, more Albertans are finda job than less educated staying on at university to people. get a master's degree, even

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