ΟΙ ΕΚΤΙΜΗΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΑΠΑΣΧΟΛΗΣΗ

Διαβάστε ένα άρθρο, όπου ο αρθρογράφος φαίνεται πως εκτιμά τη γεωγραφία της εκπαίδευσης και της σύνδεσής της με την απασχόληση. Οι εκτιμήσεις κάθε άλλο παρά αισιόδοξες είναι. Ίσως η εκτίμηση αυτή να περιγράφει ακραίες καταστάσεις αλλά πολλές αλήθειες καταγράφονται. Κι αν οι κυβερνήσεις δεν λάβουν σοβαρά και συνεπή μέτρα ή όλοι αν δεν αντιμετωπίσουμε με υπευθυνότητα τα ζητήματα οι επιπτώσεις θα είναι τραγικές και θα αγγίξουμε αν δεν επαλληθεύσουμε τον αρθρογράφο.
(Δεν μεταφράσαμε το άρθρο αφ' ενός λόγω της έκτασής του αφ' ετέρου καλύτερα η ανάγνωση από το προτότυπο παρά από μετάφραση)


 Education Commissar Androulla Vassiliou points out that a great number of jobs have been lost during the crisis and new work places will primarily emerge in areas that need higher skills levels. In 2020, it is estimated that 35% of all jobs will require high qualifications, compared to 29% today. This will mean 15 million more jobs with high qualifications. In addition, the number of jobs requiring medium-level qualifications will increase by 4 million, while the share will remain stable at 50%. In contrast, the number and share of jobs needing only basic qualifications will fall.


Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out uncollege is much better than college! We live in a world where information can be found online for just about anything. What can't be found online can be found in books, and what can't be found in books can be found through internships, jobs, and mentors. Do not waste your time with colleges. There is a glut of college graduates in the labor market. Many of them move back home with their parents and take jobs that do not require a college degree.


Vassiliou wrongly assumes that colleging is the key to exiting from the crisis and creating a sustainable market economy. But Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Eurokleptocracy, gigaregulation, Antitrust Armageddon, and gigataxation, especially VAT, are the real causes of the European financial meltdown. Democracy in Fourth Reich(EU) has deteriorated to kleptocracy, and Fourthreichians, aka Europeans, are mad as hell. Eurokleptocracy thrives on waste, fraud, abuse,and kickbacks. European Union(EU), aka Fourth Reich, an illegal unvoted confederation, condones the European Commission(EC), aka Eldorado of Corruption, the European Parliament(EP), aka Eldorado of Prostitutes, and Graecokleptocrats, the most corrupt politicians on Earth. Starve the beast and join the Global Tax Revolt, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globaltaxrevolt


Vassiliou insists that education will have to be a vital part of Fourthreichian strategy, and short-term measures to deal with rising unemployment will need to be combined with structural reforms that prepare Fourthreichian societies for the long-term challenges, such as demographic or climate change and the risk of social exclusion. Obviously Vassiliou confuses education with schooling! Venitis asserts there is no direct relationship between education and schooling. You might be schooled but uneducated, and you might be educated but unschooled. Schools are concentration camps for the drones of society. Unschooling is much better than schooling. Internet is the best source of knowledge and information, replacing schools, libraries, media, parliaments, and postoffice.


Vassiliou points out the Eldorado of Corruption will adopt a Communication on the future Fourth Reich 2020 strategy in early March. Venitis notes that many colleges offer instruction online. An increasing number of colleges, such as MIT, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkley, Oxford, and Cambridge, are placing course content, including lectures and instructional materials, online for free. There are many programs that allow students to earn college credits by studying and completing an exam remotely. Through these types of programs, a student can earn college credit through self-study at a fraction of the cost of a traditional college course.


As the Eldorado of Corruption has already indicated in its consultation paper published last November, this strategy will rely heavily on knowledge and the key roles of education, innovation, creativity and research. Venitis asserts that college is very expensive. Total average tuition, room and board for a bachelor's degree is around $100,000. 80% of all students graduate with more than $30,000 in debt, and 40% say it will take them ten years to pay off their debt. More than half of college students require six or more years to finish their degree. Going to college requires commitment and dedication, and you'll need to be in it for the long haul. In order to graduate, you'll need to take some courses that are not relevant to your interests and passion. The average college freshman spends ten hours a week partying, eight hours a day engaged with media and technology, including games, cell phones, TV, and social networks, and only ten hours a week actually studying.


As outlined in the Presidency's discussion paper, Fourthreichians will need to combine excellence with equity. On the one hand, the Fourthreichian Council will need to deepen the knowledge base of Fourthreichian economies to compete with the rest of the world. On the other hand, Fourth Reich will need to enable every citizen to participate in lifelong learning and have opportunities in the labour market, and to play an active role in society at large.


Eurokleptocrats point out that Fourth Reich will certainly need higher, more efficient and targeted investment to achieve these ambitious objectives. Vassiliou points out the effective measures needed to target:


* the more than 6 million young people who leave school early,


* the over 1 million of 15 year olds with poor reading skills , and
* the nearly 80 million adults with only basic skills, so that they improve their skills, competences and employability.


Eurokleptocrats note that Fourth Reich has a basis for cooperation in the Strategic framework on education and training that Fourth Reich Ministers adopted in May last year. But Fourth Reich needs to anchor these priorities in Fourth Reich's overall strategy for economic and social development up to 2020.


Vassiliou asserts that delivering sustainable growth and social inclusion requires agreement to an agenda that places Fourth Reich's citizens at the centre. Quality education and training can perfectly play this role. It should be Fourthreichian Council's aim for the future Fourth Reich 2020 strategy to provide an opportunity to capitalise on the potential of education and training to create a more sustainable economy and society.


Vassiliou suggests the Fourthreichian Council should be as concrete as it can be in putting forward its ideas. And Fourth Reich can already take account of what the Fourthreichian Council knows from the discussions at the informal meeting of the Heads of State and Government last week.


Council President Van Rompuy focuses on education and training, specifically on promoting an increase in university studies. But Venitis muses that most top presidents and self-made billionaires dropped out of high school or college! The list includes Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Page (Google), Michael Dell (Dell), David Geffen (Geffen Records), Steve Jobs (Apple), Richard Branson (Virgin), Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren), Jerry Yang (Yahoo) and Zuckerberg(Facebook). Zuckerberg and Gates went to Harvard. Page and Yang both attended Stanford. Jobs only completed one semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Dell left the University of Texas at 19. Geffen dropped out of three universities before launching his record label. Lauren went to Baruch College in New York City, but left after two years. Branson, a mild dyslexic, never made it out of high school. Ford Motors founder, Henry Ford, never had any formal education, outside his training as a machinist.


Premier Barroso points out the Fourthreichian Council has already agreed last May, as one of the five benchmarks within the strategic framework for Fourthreichian cooperation in education and training, that by 2020, the share of 30-34 year olds with tertiary educational attainment should be at least 40% (the current figure for the EU is 31%). In the USA & Japan the figure is 40%.


President Van Rompuy points out the five priority targets for the strategy as a whole will definitely emerge directly from the Fourthreichian policy dialogue on education. The Fourthreichian Council should seize the opportunity to have one of our key education objectives highlighted in this way. The higher education attainment benchmark has the merit of addressing both the objectives of promoting excellence and of increasing access. Education, like any other service, is best provided by the free market, achieving greater quality and efficiency with more diversity of choice.