While New Jersey manufacturing experts often note that students can get good jobs in the industry without going to college, a recent Wall Street Journal story suggests that need for higher-level skills is “driving up the education level” required on factory floors. “Within the next three years, American manufacturers are, for the first time, on track to employ more college graduates than workers with a high-school education or less, part of a shift toward automation that has increased factory output, opened the door to more women and reduced prospects for lower- skilled workers,” the Journal reported. Please read more here.