346 people with working science degrees in Albania

The education system in the country, year after year, has lost ties with the labour market, because produced diplomas do not comply with professions that the sectors require. As a result, many people who have completed higher education in the country remain out of the job market and are totally discouraged to find a job even out of the question.

According to an analysis that the Monitor does data from INSTAT, in the first quarter of 2019, 18.1% of people with high-school jobs were inactive.

The data trades that at least from 2016 to last year, the scale of “demblemism” in highly educated people is fluctuated at the 19-21% interval.

Enhancing less-placed sectors, such as fason, centener call, tourism, and so on, are making it increasingly difficult to hire educated people in our country.

According to INSTAT data, last year the number of unemployed was 173,207, of whom 346 were doctors. This category, which includes people with a degree of sciences, totaled 0.2% of the total unemployed.

Diploma that does not require a job market

Data on unemployment according to the educational level is a clear picture of the country's educational system incompatible with the labour market. Higher education degrees are mostly for economics, social science and law, while job needs are in agriculture and tourism.

Education statistics show the alarming tendency towards professions that the labour market does not need. Over 50% of students last year chose to study humanitarian science and arts, while the number of students in the agriculture-related branches and tourism declined 24 and 57%, respectively, compared to five years ago.

In 2018, compared with the previous year, weights that occupy long - term unemployed in total unemployment has increased by 2.6 percentage points.

During 2018, compared to the previous year, there was a decline in unemployment rates for persons with 8-9-year education by 2.4 percentage points and for middle-educated persons by 1.2 percentage points.

Girls select “in light branch”

Data for the last academic year showed that in most cases girls have graduated from social sciences and education while in the minority as to branches related to agriculture and fishing, engineering, production and construction. Graduates of boys dominate these branches.

For both genders, however, the primary burden on diplomas taken according to the field of research in higher education is that of business science, management and law for both genders.

The study areas where girls graduate most are business, management and law (27.4 %), health and well-being (17.5 %), arts and humanitarian (12.0 %). As the study fields, where boys mostly graduate, are business administration and law 30,1 %), engineering, production and construction (16,1 %) and information technologies (10,4 %).

According to an INSTAT publication on gender equality in Albania, the study field, the most dominated by graduating girls, is that of health and well-being in which 78.9 % of the graduating students are girls, followed by education with 77,7, % of the graduating students, and art and human science (74,2 %). While boys dominate the field of services (71,1, % of graduates are boys), followed by engineering, production and construction (61,7 %), and information technology with 56,3 %.

During the 2017/18 academic year in compulsory education, 37 thousand students from whom 51,1 % were boys and 48.9 % girls graduated. In this academic year, there is a slight decrease in the number of students who receive high education diplomas compared to the previous year.

Graduate students in gender middle education were 48.6 % boys and 51.4 % girls. The number of graduates in higher education in the 2017/18 academic year was 34 thousand students, among whom girls made up 63.3 %s. The number of graduates a year ago has dropped by 4.1 %.

The gross turnout rate in compulsory education is 102.1 for boys and 99.2 for girls. Even middle-level research participation is higher for boys than for girls, 97.4 % and 90,1 % respectively, while at university level the report goes down, where participation is higher for girls, with 66.4 % than for boys, with 43.8 %.

Gender participation in educational cycles shows about the existence of gender differences at different levels of education. There is a higher ratio of boys, compared to girls in pre-university education, while in higher education 59.7% of students in this cycle are girls. /montor