What Happened To Argentina's Stem Students?

[Noesdeayer]

"Gov't Concerned by Skilled Labour Shortage" is the subject of an article in today's (July 11.'16) BA Herald. As is already known about 50% of job openings for skilled technical personnel those for students of Science,Technology,Engineering & Math are not able to be filled due to the lack of qualified applicants In The Skilled Demand 2020 Report.The projection for the coming years is even more dire.
What has happened? Maybe too much Peronist political rhetoric and not enough harsh reality in the Argentine university and public education system maybe? Read the article for more information.
Besides these hard skills,there will be a projected need for more soft or people skills-negotiating,marketing,public speaking,conflict resolution,etc.-as well .The article is worth a few minutes of your time if you are interested in Argentina's employment future.

 

[scotttswan]

Brain drain. Rather than put up with the crap thrown at them by the crazy governments, they fuck off to anywhere else.

Most countries will take them in a heartbeat too, so they're not short of options.

A lot have EU passports too.

 

[Noesdeayer]

ejcot en argentina .
What you posted is also very sadly true but for graduates with accomplished skills.
However, the Herald article centers on present day graduates and students who have not accquired these skills
due to the deficiencies in the Argentine public primary,secondary and universiity educational system.
Why has this been happening for so long?

 

[UK Man]

ejcot en argentina .
What you posted is also very sadly true but for graduates with accomplished skills.
However, the Herald article centers on present day graduates and students who have not accquired these skills
due to the deficiencies in the Argentine public primary,secondary and universiity educational system.
Why has this been happening for so long?

Yes the education system is a disaster and no wonder when you have teachers on poorer wages and conditions than the school cleaners.

 

[Jaredberryman]

Another problem is that those careers are incredibly intense, but in actuality, they don't always pay that much for what you must go through. I have mechanical engineer friends that make a mere 35,000 pesos before taxes (with years of experience now). You can actually make a lot more money running some kind of business than you can as an engineer. Many engineers also create services and technology for businesses outside Argentina, as there is not much being produced here in Argentina in those areas. Sure, there might be some jobs available. But businesses will definitely not pay high salaries for them.

 

[scotttswan]

ejcot en argentina .
What you posted is also very sadly true but for graduates with accomplished skills.
However, the Herald article centers on present day graduates and students who have not accquired these skills
due to the deficiencies in the Argentine public primary,secondary and universiity educational system.
Why has this been happening for so long?

The Public University system isn't that bad, unless it suddenly went to the shit since 2008 (quite possible). I know of a couple of semi-recent graduates who got jobs in the EU / Mexico. I'm not sure what primary or secondary they went to though, quite possibly private.

They have no plans on returning any time soon. I suspect most will marry someone there and that will be that.