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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION:

An Ineffective but socially appropriate education system?

SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Joan Estruch

PUBLISHER:

84 CUADERNOS DE PEDAGOGÍA. Nº369

PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION:

JUNIO 2007

TYPE OF PUBLICATION:

Magazine

LANGUAGE/S OF PUBLICATION:

Spanish

LANGUAGE OF REVIEW:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

Statistics show that early drop out of school is growing significantly, the number of graduates from High School is diminishing and 30% of student don’t complete compulsory education. Nevertheless, this does not seem to matter in an economy with high growth rates, more focused on speculative and fast enrichment than knowledge.

COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION:

The article underline how the current Spanish labor market offers more employment opportunities to young people with low educational qualifications (tourism and construction) compare to those with higher education. On the other side, in the other European countries young people with high level of education usually have more opportunity to find more qualified jobs. This could be one of the reason Spanish young people don’t feel motivated in completing their studies. Moreover there are other week points of the economical Spanish model (low productivity, low high technology development and high debt).
Finally, the solution could be taking into account positive educational systems such as those currently present in Finland and South Chorea which are very different but they both consider the match between educational and social values.

NAME OF COMPILER:

Alessia Pinna

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Florida

ROLE:

International Relations Department



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15 November 2012

Stay@School at the Future of Education Conference

The Stay@School projet will be presented at the third edition of the “Future of Education” international conference, held in Florence, Italy, on 13 - 14 June 2013. Over 250 participants from all over the world will attend the conference. The conference participants belong to the sectors of higher education, school education, vocational education and training as well as adult education, therefore representing all of the target groups of the Stay@School project.

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