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How is the choice for technology in education progressing? What is the demand from the labour market?
On May 20, the annual update of the Technology Pact Monitor was presented, highlighting the following trends:
- The percentage of pupils and students choosing a science and technology study package or a science and technology programme has stabilised. However, the percentage of science and technology Wo bachelor's and master's degrees has increased over the years.
- The size of the technical labour market is 1.53 million people, which is 20% of the working population. Among working men, 32% have a technical job; among working women, 6%.
- Between 2013 and 2018, the number of women in a technical profession increased by 24%.
- Unemployment rate among technically educated individuals is low: 3.1% compared to the national average of 4.8% in 2018.
More results can be found at www.techniekpactmonitor.nl.
Dialogic has been supporting Platform Talent voor Technologie since 2015 in monitoring the progress of the Technology Pact. Dialogic's role includes processing education data from the Education Executive Agency (DUO) and the education-labour market analyses from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Since 2015, Platform Talent voor Technologie has been using Dialogic's data platform for visualising the results. Want to know more? Contact Jasper Veldman.
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