Education & Workforce

A new LSU-led project is set to use high-frequency radar technology to collect data about currents, waves and other factors affecting the coast. 

The number of people working in construction in the Capital Region has grown by 11% over the past 12 months, double the rate of the next-fastest growing sector, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber reports. 

For the first time in nearly a year, Louisiana had less than two job...

At 11,120 students, enrollment for the fall semester at Baton Rouge Community  College is...

More than 80% of likely Louisiana voters believe that taking action to improve affordability and access to child care should be a top priority for the state in 2024, USA Today Network reports.

Louisiana reported its lowest unemployment rate on record last month, the Louisiana Workforce Commision announced on Tuesday.

An LSU professor has been awarded a $3 million grant to research and plug the state’s 450 orphan oil wells leaking methane gas. 

States have engaged in decades of underfunding of land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities, leading to a more than $12 billion disparity with comparable non-HBCU institutions, leaders of the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday. 

Louisiana spent $274.6 million in federal dollars over five years on workforce development programs that often left participants making less money than they had been earning two-to-three quarters before getting the training, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office reports. 

Many companies have instituted hiring freezes this year and several sectors from tech to...