Hartmut Scherer's List: Education - Trends, Changes, Challenges

• Only 34% of Europeans aged between 15 and 29 were employed in 2011, this being the lowest figure ever recorded by the Eurostat
• Marco Mancini, the president of the Conference of Italian University Rectors, said this year that Italian universities are facing “the risk of the collapse of the system”. In the same month, students protesting across UK summarized in just three words what is now affecting now university graduates: dis-empowerment, marginalization and unemployment.
• “In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about twenty-four hours per week, while his modern counterpart puts in only fourteen hours per week.
• The most interesting part is that this constant decrease allocated to study is doubled by a constant increase in grades.
• faculty also appear to expect less from students than they have in the past
• In the UK it is officially reported that over 40% of graduates cannot find graduate-level jobs and that their job prospects continue to decline.
• This is represented by youth marginalization. An entire generation is now discovering that the long held belief that education is the way to find a decent job is just a lie or, at the best, overrated.

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