O Caso para a Empregabilidade
Matrículas no ensino superior, estão a aumentar rapidamente. De 2000 a 2015, o número de alunos matriculados em todo o mundo subiu de cerca de 100 milhões a mais de 214 milhões de euros. Este número deverá chegar a mais de 470 milhões em 2035, com um salto de mais de quatro por cento projetada, anualmente, através de 2050. Mais de 85 por cento de crescimento vai acontecer nos mercados emergentes, uma tendência de crescimento ques impulsionado por um aumento da população e da urbanização, mudanças geopolíticas, e uma revolução na tecnologia. Hás a significant gap, however, between the aspirations of the education field and reality:
- 20% dos 1,3 bilhão de jovens de 15-24 anos que estão desempregados ou não prosseguir a sua educação.
- Por IFC Vitae de pesquisa, 57% dos licenciados não conseguem encontrar um emprego em sua especialidade.
- 54% dos empregadores não consegue encontrar licenciados com as competências certas.
Solving the disconnect between what students are learning on the one hand, and the needs of labor markets on the other, is one of the major challenges of our time. It’s also an unprecedented opportunity for the more than 19,600 accredited higher education institutions that exist globally to go beyond achieving academic excellence and embrace employability as a goal to be actively pursued.
For youth to be productive and employable, higher education institutions must equip them with relevant market skills that blend knowledge and technical know-how with essential employability skills. To remain competitive as job markets evolve, these institutions will need to continually reassess their role to stay relevant, particularly as agile newcomers disrupt the market through innovation.
Foto: cortesia da Universidade Continental
To ensure students transition quickly to meaningful careers, higher education institutions will need to shift to a new culture that engineers students’ skills to suit a more digital work environment where tasks are constantly changing and becoming more automated. To succeed, institutions must infuse essential employability skills through modern pedagogy, such as expanding career services and guidance, growing industry partnerships for research and work-integrated learning, and incorporating industry feedback into curriculum development and program design.
By adjusting their delivery of services and becoming more attuned to the needs of the marketplace, institutions can ensure that all students perceive higher education as a worthwhile investment that serves as a point of departure to becoming successful professionals.
“Anteriormente, o valor residia em conhecimento. Hoje, o valor está no que se pode fazer com que o conhecimento.”
David Garza Salazar, o Presidente, o Tecnológico de Monterrey
