Tertiary education

Bulgaria has experienced a significant decline in the number of students enrolled in secondary schools over the past two decades.

Today, Wednesday, September 18, at 11:59 p.m., the deadline for applications to fill, on a first-come, first-served basis, a total of 73 permanent teachers of University and Technological Education, for the Vocational Education and Training units of the Public Employment Service (PES).

The success of vocational education, whose graduates are quickly absorbed by the labor market, is also an indicator of the importance that alternative post-secondary education should acquire.

The proliferation of degrees that are useless and without prestige was always driven by clientelistic motives, victimizing graduates who ended up unemployed. 

Vocational education encompasses approximately half of high school students and is available in every district nationwide, reaching around 80% of all municipalities. The admissions blueprint for vocational education during the ongoing academic year (2023/2024) offers an intricate portrayal of the locations and specialties where professionals are undergoing training.

Encouraged by how far Greek society has come and eager to exploit his dominance in the last election and the persistent disarray in the opposition, the prime minister is pressing on with an important educational reform: the establishment of private universities.

Although businesses in Greece report a shortage of staff in cutting-edge specialties, OECD data show that 33.3% of vocational education graduates aged 25-29 are unemployed and not participating in an educational program that could enhance their professional skills.

The cabinet has been working on the Medium Term Program (MTP) for some time, and a roadmap for public sector savings has been developed.

Some 71.7 percent of bachelor's degree graduates in Türkiye were employed in 2022, while the undergraduate department with the highest average earnings was flight training last year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has revealed.

Türkiye's first vocational high school in the field of space and aviation technology has been opened in the capital Ankara's Elmadağ district.

There are more than 6.9 million students and nearly 185,000 academic staff in a total of 208 higher education institutions in the country, according to the 2022-2023 academic year's statistics, Türkiye's Higher Education Board (YÖK) has announced.