President Luis Abinader criticized yesterday that the young people in the country do not have the necessary training base to integrate successfully in their professional life.
Abinader stressed that well-trained entrepreneurial technicians are needed to “fill certain gaps in our productive and work fabric.” The President made the statement leading the inauguration of the great “National Consultations on the Future of Technical Training” of the National Institute of Technical Training (Infotep), which aims to establish and analyze new trends in the requirements of the national productive level. on the market and internationally, to prepare young people according to what is needed in the labor market.
He expressed that the world is changing, so “only if we are able to anticipate and predict what demand, we can adapt development strategies and successfully complete them.” The head of state said that the analyzes on the country that were conducted so from an educational perspective as well as from an employment perspective, they show that both the high drop-out rate and the problems of transition from education to employment have a lot to do with the low attractiveness of vocational training. has had it on young people for the past 30 years.
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“It is undeniable, perhaps even inevitable, that at a time when there was a huge expansion of access to higher education and the doors of an increasingly accessible university were opening, it somehow had a negative influence on visibility and desirability. vocational training ”.
The president expressed his support for the students and said that “he must know that choosing professional training bets on their future and that of the whole country”. He also indicated that Infotep is carrying out an exercise of paramount importance to identify these imbalances and, above all, to see how to overcome them.
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At the event held at the National Theater, were also the vice president Raquel Peña, the director of Infotep, Rafael Santos; Labor Ministers Luis Miguel de Camps and Public Administration, Darío Castillo; for the Association of Industries, Circe Almánzar, President of Conep, Pedro Brache; union leader Gabriel del Río Doñé, among others.