Undergraduate stages with reduced risk of unemployment, says study – Digital Journal

The internships in undergraduate help reduce by 15% the risk of unemployment for graduates, this percentage may be 27% in polytechnics, according to a study released today by the University of Aveiro.

This If the first study conducted in the country on the impact of the existence of internships in the employability of graduates, the responsibility of the School of Technology and Management Agueda (ESTGA), one of the poles of the University of Aveiro.

“The existence of internships in the degrees available in Portugal tends to reduce the unemployment rates of graduates at about 15%. When applied to the polytechnic, the developed analytical model suggests that the reduction in the unemployment rate tends to be 27%, “concludes the study of ESTGA.

The results also suggest that the reduction in the unemployment rate is higher (37%) when the stages are staged, by comparison with the model of stages unique and tend to the end of the course (15%).

“The study shows that the stages effectively contribute to the employability of graduates, especially if they are phased stages along the course,” says Gonçalo Paiva Dias, design team coordinator.

The research that polytechnic school at the University of Aveiro analyzed all existing degree courses in the country, based on unemployment data registered in the IEFP in June 2013, a total of 1,158 degrees of the existing 1,621, both public and private.

According to Gonçalo Paiva Dias, “48% include some kind of stage in their respective curricula, a percentage that is much more significant in higher education polytechnic, where 65% the degrees include stage than in university education, where only 28% include them. “

This percentage, says the researcher,” is also higher in the private higher education, with 56% of the degrees include stage while in public higher education only 44% the part. “

In Portugal, according to data from the National Statistics Institute, the unemployment rate among young people, in the first quarter of 2013, was 42.1%.

“Although this rate is lower among graduates is, however, worrying since it has concomitantly increase with social visibility of unemployment in this group of young people” alert the researcher

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