DominicB
25 Nov 2013
Life / Conflicting views about life in Poland? [45]
Actually, there is a desperate shortage of university graduates.... in STEM fields (hard Sciences, advanced Technology, Engineering and high-level applied Math).
Problem is that there is a huge glut of graduates in areas like arts, humanities, law, journalism, education, social sciences, and soft sciences like psychology and economics, as well as graduates of low-quality programs from low-quality universities, a huge problem in Poland right now. In some fields like the arts and economics, the number of graduates per year exceed that of the total active workforce in the field.
Graduates of STEM fields create wealth and more jobs. The more engineers, for example, a country has, the more it will need in the future. Non-stem graduates generally don't. Foolishly, young people continue to choose non-stem careers, often fully aware of the bleak job prospects, and governments foolishly continue to finance their studies, fully aware that it is a bad investment.
I think that another reason of dissatisfaction in Europe is too big percentage of university graduates.
Actually, there is a desperate shortage of university graduates.... in STEM fields (hard Sciences, advanced Technology, Engineering and high-level applied Math).
Problem is that there is a huge glut of graduates in areas like arts, humanities, law, journalism, education, social sciences, and soft sciences like psychology and economics, as well as graduates of low-quality programs from low-quality universities, a huge problem in Poland right now. In some fields like the arts and economics, the number of graduates per year exceed that of the total active workforce in the field.
Graduates of STEM fields create wealth and more jobs. The more engineers, for example, a country has, the more it will need in the future. Non-stem graduates generally don't. Foolishly, young people continue to choose non-stem careers, often fully aware of the bleak job prospects, and governments foolishly continue to finance their studies, fully aware that it is a bad investment.