BADAJOZ (Notimex).- The secretary general Iberoamericana, Rebeca Grynspan, said today the need to develop training systems more versatile, able to adapt to the current needs of the economy and the society, to the disjunction of technology. After being invested as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Extremadura, Badajoz, southwest, Spanish, stressed that today we are at the dawn of a fourth industrial revolution.
this Is a new era, he said, driven by innovations such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of things and the "big" data, will radically transform the world as we know it.
he Said that by the year 2030, more than half of the current jobs will have been automated or have become obsolete, and three-quarters of the 500 largest companies in the world have disappeared or have been replaced by others.
he Explained, "our tissue production are changing at a dizzying pace, to the point that our universities, they struggle to keep up."
he Said, at the global level there is a huge gap between the skills acquired by graduates and the demand markets, in addition to between 50 and 60 per cent of firms in Europe and Latin America say they do not find workers with the skills they need.
In the Faculty of Education, University of Extremadura, Grynspan was asked How to educate young people today, knowing that 60 per cent of them will end up doing a job that does not yet exist? and he said the experience of different countries arise from three key to do this.
The first of them, he said, is to move towards a university model that combines the transmission of knowledge with the development of transferable skills or cross-cutting.
"don’t we educate for a particular job, but for a working world and a society in constant and rapid transformation", he recalled.
The second key, linked to the previous one, is added, to enable learning throughout the life cycle, so as to cope with the volatility of the times.
he Recalled that traditionally, universities are dismissed from their students as soon as they ended the race, but this is changing drastically.
said that, it is estimated that by the year 2030, only 30 percent of the training that students will need in their professional career will learn in the degrees, and masters degrees.
The rest, he continued, should buy it in systems of continuous learning, in which the bulk of the teaching will be through digital platforms and education combined.
Before the rector of the University of Extremadura, Segundo Píriz Durán, emphasized that the change has already begun to occur and in fact, the 10 percent of spaniards between 25 and 64 years participated in some form of lifelong learning programme in 2015.
For its part, the united States has a figure that is around 70 percent, but in Latin America there is still much work to be done, he said.
"we Must be able to ensure that you have a thirst for knowledge and that this can be satisfied always, that nobody is excluded from education, regardless of their socioeconomic status, age, or state of education," he warned.
The exSecretaria deputy General of the UN, he cited as a third and final proposal for the adaptation of the disruptions of technological education in innovation.
"Today, an important part of the economic growth of a country depends on its capacity to innovate. This is an essential source of wealth and well-being for our societies and, as such, should occupy an ever greater place in our university", he noted.
it Is necessary, he said, to promote an entrepreneurial culture among students and researchers, promoting the creation of "spin-offs" and "startups" university, establishing channels of financing and recognizing this type of work at the curricular level.
According to Unesco, each year that is added to the training population average reduces the levels of violence, mitigates the inequality and strengthen the rule of law at the same time increasing the economic growth.
in Addition, nearly two-thirds of the wealth of the developed countries, is due to the human capital, that is, 15 times more than its natural resources.
In his speech, he referred to globalization, which, he added, has had a multitude of beneficial effects for humanity. "It has increased our capacity to generate wealth, fight poverty, and to collaborate between countries in the resolution of conflicts and defence of civil rights", he added.
however, in the ceremony which was also attended by the president of the regional government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, he stressed that there is no denying that this same globalisation has generated new challenges and problems.
"Has accelerated the climate change, destroyed many traditional ways of life and increased inequality between people, to the point that at present 99 per cent of global wealth is in the hands of one percent of the population," she said.
For this reason, called to be able to educate in the identities inclusive, by teaching young people to be understood in its complexity, to understand that we all belong simultaneously to different groups and universes of meaning, and that it is possible to build bridges with other people because all we are "diversely different".- Adela Mac Swiney González
No comments:
Post a Comment