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Spain is the country in Europe with more young people NEET. One in five young Spaniards, 20% of young people between 15 and 29 years, are ninis , a label that has grown steadily since 2008, with the outbreak of the crisis, in which Spain leads the OECD average of 15%, according to a report of that organization.
This is one of the main findings of the OECD Panorama Education 2014 – “Education at a Glance” – (see pdf), submitted by the Secretary of State for Education, Montserrat Gomendio, and the director of the OECD Innovation, Dirk van Damme, data 2011 and 2012.
This is, as Dirk van Damme, a “very serious problem” in Spain, Italy and Turkey , but “not worse” and whose solution, in his view, is in increasing the attractiveness of VET system.
On the high percentage of “Ninis” Gomendio has warned that at present, who leave school face a “much tougher ” that found that, before the crisis, made by a well-paid construction sector employment.
Unemployment of college three times the OECD average
The report also shows that having gone through college or have a higher vocational education is no longer a guarantee of employment today and less so in the case of young Spaniards . The rate of stop Spanish university and vocational training (FP) higher amounts to 14% , while the OECD average is 5% .
A tertiary degree (college and university FP) in Spain “does not reduce the risk of unemployment as well as in other countries,” stressed Van Damme, who explained that the average is 55% in Spain and 63% in other OECD countries.
This situation is repeated in Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Czech Republic and Slovakia , although unemployment rates in Spain They are the highest among these countries.
There is a problem only in the higher level of education, although in this case the differences between the Spanish and international media figures are tripled. Adults with secondary education in Spain in 2012 had an unemployment rate of 22%, while the average of the 34 OECD countries was 7.8%. In Spain, the unemployment rate of people who failed the ESO is 30%, by 13.6% in the OECD.
However, the report stresses that study a race continues to report profits elsewhere : graduates have higher than those who have only reached high school, and are more likely to achieve greater satisfaction in some social aspects (eg, salary increases confidence in neighbor or believe that their opinion is heard by governments).
Adult population worse educated than the OECD average
Although the percentage of population with training lower (ESO or less) decreased markedly in Spain so far this century (from 62 to 45%) still remains far from the rates presented by OECD and the European Union both in primary and (45% versus 24%) and upper secondary (22% versus 44%).
That is, there is a difference in the education attained by adults over 20% compared to other developed countries.
students, including college, take longer to complete their studies and the latter obtained his first university degree with 26.9 years compared with 24 years, for example, in the UK.
More education, but worse
What is extracted from this report is that the Spanish education has improved with Over the years, since today’s young people study longer and are better prepared than their parents -about 40% of Spanish adults has reached a higher educational level of their parents -.
However, this is an investment that returns its revenues in proportion, even in terms of educational excellence, the report reveals that Spanish adults with higher educational level (university degree or higher FP) are less level in reading comprehension and math than the OECD average (only 12% of Spaniards reached the highest level in this dimension compared with 24% of the world average; and math figures are 10% versus 26%).
The worst level in reading and math Spanish hinders their employment options and better wages
In addition to the blush on the comparison, the statistic has explanatory value, for A high level of competence is linked to better job prospects , remember the OECD, which handles data according to which the vast majority of people who showed skills in reading and mathematics were employed.
From the point of view of public spending, education spending would return either the same benefits in other countries, if we look at the fact that, with figures from 2011, the expenditure per student in Spain in public schools from primary education to tertiary is similar to the OECD average ($ 9,500 versus 9,700).
In 2011, Spain spent an average of 5.5% of GDP on education (OECD average was 6.1%).
Greater weight Spain subsidized centers
Other aspects of Spain compared to the average of the OECD indicate that is greater the weight of aided schools. 28% of students go to one of these centers in primary or secondary first stage, while in the OECD the percentage is 8% in primary and 11% in high school.
The report also stops to explain the status of teachers . In Spain, the faculty of the ESO began his career with a salary 26% higher than the OECD average, while it is true that the Spanish teacher public school offers more hours per year than the OECD average (880 hours versus 782), although its total statutory working time is less.
In Spain, about 16% of teachers are on contract for one school year or less-that percentage is 12% in the average developed countries -.
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