Roundtable on technical education

The Czech industrial companies that represent a core of the Czech economy are lacking, in the long term, a sufficient number of technically educated employees. A new inflow of them is not possible without an improvement in the technical education starting with the primary schools. This was the idea that Jaroslav Hanák, the president of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic (SP) has stressed during the debate „What comes next in the technical education“ which the SP has organized together with the publishing house Economia on Tuesday 3^rd March 2015.

The Confederation of Industry will thus support the projects promoting the teaching of mathematics, physics and chemistry, Hanák said.

„In the long term, the education system doesn’t correspond to the labour market’s needs,“ the minister of education Marcel Chládek who took part in the debate pointed out.  „We have to show that people can enjoy technical things.“

In the Czech Republic, there are up to 12 graduates for one working place in the humanities. „There is something going wrong,“ Pavel Kysilka, the chairman of the board of the Česká spořitelna bank that is the general partner of the Year of the Industry and Technical Education initiative started by the Confederation of Industry this year.

Kysilka pointed out that the countries occupying the first places in the ranking of the pupils‘ mathematical knowledge are exhibiting the highest economic growth and employment rates.