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How are things going with the choice for technology in education? What is the demand from the labour market?
On 20 May, the annual update of the Technology Pact Monitor was presented, highlighting the following trends:
- The share of pupils and students opting for a science and technology subject package or a science and technology study has stabilised. The share of science and technology wo bachelor and master's degrees has increased in recent years.
- The size of the technical labour market is 1.53 million people, which is 20% of the working population. 32% of working men have a technical job, compared to 6% of working women.
- Between 2013 and 2018, the number of women in a technical profession has increased by 24%.
- Unemployment among technically educated individuals is low: 3.1% compared to the national average of 4.8% in 2018.
For more results, visit www.techniekpactmonitor.nl.
Since 2015, Dialogic has been supporting Platform Talent voor Technologie in monitoring the progress of the Technology Pact. Dialogic's role involves processing educational data from the Education Executive Agency (DUO) and the education-labour market analyses from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The Platform Talent for Technology has been utilising Dialogic's data platform for visualising results since 2015. Want to know more? Contact Jasper Veldman.
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