Yesterday, the Alares® Foundation and EAE Business School held the breakfast event “Education as a key factor for competitiveness” in Barcelona. The meeting highlighted the importance of a sound education system to successfully overcome the current economic crisis affecting our country.
This breakfast event, part of a series that began last December, brought together professionals in the field, including Robert Ramos, Head of Zarza FP Cat at the Government of Catalonia, and Joseph M. Martorell i Rodon, Director of the Training Programs Area at the Politècnica de Catalunya Foundation. They discussed and analyzed education as a key factor in generating competitiveness and differentiation within Spain’s business sector.
During the breakfast, EAE’s Strategic Research Center presented data on the current state of education in Spain. The analysis places Spain’s early school-leaving rate at 31.9%, twice the European average of 14.95%. Moreover, while most European Union countries reduced their early school-leaving rates between 2003 and 2008, the figures in our country remained virtually unchanged.
EAE also concludes that the higher the level of education, the lower the unemployment rate. However, it explains that 19.8% of employed people with university degrees perform jobs below their professional qualifications.
Education as a key factor in overcoming the crisis
Yesterday, the Alares® Foundation and EAE Business School held the breakfast event “Education as a key factor for competitiveness” in Barcelona. The meeting highlighted the importance of a sound education system to successfully overcome the current economic crisis affecting our country.
This breakfast event, part of a series that began last December, brought together professionals in the field, including Robert Ramos, Head of Zarza FP Cat at the Government of Catalonia, and Joseph M. Martorell i Rodon, Director of the Training Programs Area at the Politècnica de Catalunya Foundation. They discussed and analyzed education as a key factor in generating competitiveness and differentiation within Spain’s business sector.
During the breakfast, EAE’s Strategic Research Center presented data on the current state of education in Spain. The analysis places Spain’s early school-leaving rate at 31.9%, twice the European average of 14.95%. Moreover, while most European Union countries reduced their early school-leaving rates between 2003 and 2008, the figures in our country remained virtually unchanged.
EAE also concludes that the higher the level of education, the lower the unemployment rate. However, it explains that 19.8% of employed people with university degrees perform jobs below their professional qualifications.
