Fewer young people have completed higher technical education – NU.nl

According to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in 2005 had 12 percent of 25- to 35-year olds have completed technical training in higher education.

Last year the percentage was around 9. the number of men opting for a higher technical education is four times higher than the number of women doing so.

Young people choose after completing their training is not always a technical profession, but exchange of art.

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Among the young women with a higher technical education is less than a third eventually to work in a technical profession. Of technically trained young men nearly half in the technology sector.

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In 2015, 47 percent of surveyed men between 25 and 35 years who have completed a higher technical education, actually a technical profession.

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They often work as an engineer or technician in the field of engineering or natural . Of the technically educated women have 29 percent a technical profession, often as an engineer or architect.

If they do not go to work as a technician choose the female techniekstudenten for a job as a graphic designer, marketing consultant, agent or visual artist. Men often work in the ICT sector

By:. ANP