Czech Industry worried by lack of specialists

A recent survey, conducted by the Czech-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DTIHK) found, that almost 90 percent of German owned businesses in the ČR, complain about a lack of specialists, especially in technical fields. Should this situation not improve in time, German companies would consider leaving the ČR, the survey states.

The Czech Republic is an industrial country. The manufacturing, transport and building industries amount to 47 percent of the Czech GDP. But the Czech education system does not cater for the needs of these important industrial sectors, SPČR-Vice-Prezident Pavel Juříček states.

„During the last 20 years we have almost liquidated vocational education. The quality of our secondary education has decreased, while the quality of universities is approaching that of secondary schools”, Pavel Juříček says. And while humanities are dominating the whole education sector, technical subjects represent only 29 percent. This trend has to be reversed, industry need a lot more people with technical education”, Pavel Juříček says.