Minister: 65% of current primary school students will have currently unavailable job types

Baku. 1 May. REPORT.AZ/ “65 percent of current primary school students in the future will have currently unavailable job types. This figure has been taken from the World Economic Forum report”.

Report informs, Minister of Education Mikayil Jabbarov told at the annual event of the ministry.

According to him, this puts complex issues in front of education workers: “The issue is that the system faces the question for which kind of life and profession to prepare the student, which kind of knowledge and skills to provide them, whereas these professions are not available in our days. Nobody provides us with these answers. We get answers to questions working together with our colleagues”.

The minister noted that education and economy ministries will sign a memorandum in May: “We need a closer cooperation between our agencies for preparation and order of specialists, development of long-term forecasts and in other directions to raise value of alumni in job market, competitiveness of the economy, and more easily realize our prospects”.

M. Jabbarov noted that successful Azerbaijani alumni have to possess some competences: “This includes flexibility, information technology skills. Especially, we would like to note that we consider this not as a separately taken specialty but as necessary competence of each profession and specialty. Prospects in the job market for persons without necessary for their specialties computer skill are not promising. If we can supply our alumni with these three skills including one regional or global foreign language, they will always find jobs in the labor market”.