Employability

Employability

Employability is a key word, around which revolve the measures that will be taken or already underway. 

Data from DGES show that between 2001 and 2010, Portugal was in 4154 higher education to produce graduates. Of these, 1421-1 in three - shows unemployment rates higher than the average of 10% estimated by INE for holders of higher education. 

These are cases that are now in the crosshairs of government, which, through an order of the Secretary of State for Higher Education, John Queiró, wants to ban as early as next school year, the public higher education institutions to increase the number of vacancies in courses that do not prove their employability. Ie, the standard may, at least theoretically, apply to one-third of the top courses. In this case, the schools have to redistribute the number of places available for courses with the highest increase in employment. Namely: "Science, Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering." 

The diploma, dated June 11, imposes universities and polytechnics decreased by 20% the number of places in undergraduate teaching in primary and nursery education. Masters in professional qualification for teaching will also be a reduction, which is still to be defined. Areas where the government believes there "oversupply". 

Indeed, looking at the numbers IEFP, it appears that the professional category plagued by unemployment is the qualified teachers - one in six unemployed graduates enrolled as a teacher.