President of the Coordinating Council of Polytechnic Institutes (CCISP), Joaquim Mourato, expressed his “very concerned” about the “insufficient” number of applicants to higher education students, which has been declining since 2011.
The purpose of the disclosure by the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) of the number of vacancies available for the 1st stage of the national competition for access to higher education and that realizes a reduction in the number of candidate students, Joaquim Mourato defended on Wednesday an urgent problem resolution.
Universities and public polytechnics will provide 50,820 jobs for applicants to higher education in 1. third phase of the national contest 641 seats less than 51,461 tendered in the academic year 2013-2014. Also the number of applicants to higher education students has been declining since 2010, existing in 2012 less than 6739 competitors that year, according to data compiled at the end of the third stage.
“What worries us and a lot is that the number of candidates remains insufficient. Not only for the institutions and for the country’s needs, “he said noting that Portugal has agreed with the European Union set a target for 40% of the population aged between 30 and 34 years, have degree in 2020.“We are far from this goal. We are approaching 30%.’s a long way to go. therefore, we must seek to attract these as well as attracting a young adult population who are in employment and requires that classification, “he explained.
Joaquim Mourato reminded that access to higher education less than half of the students who complete secondary education or equivalent university degree . Next school year, pluck polytechnic institutes in the new higher technical professionals, higher post-secondary training, but do not award academic degrees, and for which access will be done at the institutional level courses.
“In the next academic year, we will open some courses pilot basis and in 2015 will be more comprehensively. Would training with short cycles and more profession-oriented, very technical and practical that can respond to the needs both of our businesses either a public that follows a route at the secondary level in vocational courses, “he said.
On the number of places available in universities and polytechnics, the president of CCISP said the fall seen holding up with the guidance and tutelage of the initiative of the institutions themselves. “On the one hand has to do with directions given by the Chief Executive. With the order of the Secretary of State for Higher Education [José Ferreira Gomes] which established that institutions can not increase the number of vacancies. Consequently, the limit would have a number of vacancies equal to the previous year, “he said.
On the other hand, explained Joaquim Mourato institutions in general, especially polytechnics, decided on their own to reduce vacancies by 2.5%, the which corresponds roughly 500 jobs. “Since the academic year 2013/14 97.8% of seats filled, was here a margin to adjust supply to demand and we have done that,” he concluded.
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