The financial crisis makes teaching job attractive

The financial crisis makes teaching job attractive

The many job opportunities and job security, will make it more attractive to uddane as a teacher or educator.

Job security is a very important factor in a time when more and more people lose their jobs due to the financial crisis. It has got more and more young people to turn to teacher and educator training. It shows a survey of 800 university students, conducted by Compass Communications for UCC. Four out of five of the students believe that job security and job opportunities is the most important thing when choosing education. Every third in the survey, also believes that more will apply for their education just because. The financial crisis. "Teachers and educators have almost 100 percent guaranteed jobs when they graduate," says Henrik Pedersen, training director at UCC, and continues, "And they also have the opportunity to work in most parts of Denmark on many different types of schools, institutions and jobs. Henrik Pedersen believes that this job guarantee and flexibility according to the study seems to make university education more attractive to young students who are about to choose a career and education "Applicant numbers on the teacher and educator training have otherwise recent years has been downward. The reason according to teacher and educator studying down the UCC, that there has been too little respect and recognition of the subjects. A survey by Capacent Epinion and a projection from the main organization FTF shows that over the next five years, well over half of the current teachers and teachers either retire or change industry, so the shortage of teachers tripled, from about 2,000 to about 6,000 over the same period.