{"id":364079,"date":"2024-05-27T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/05\/27\/laurea-sconosciuta-italia-terzultima\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:24:09","slug":"the-big-unknown-of-the-bachelors-degree-italy-third-to-last-in-college-graduation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/27\/the-big-unknown-of-the-bachelors-degree-italy-third-to-last-in-college-graduation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"The big unknown of the bachelor’s degree: Italy third to last in college graduation rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – College degrees are not for Italians,<\/strong> who do not want and do not know tertiary education. The country has the third-lowest rate of academic degree holders among the 25-34 age group in the European Union. At\u00a0the end of 2023, it stood at 30.6 percent, Eurostat notes.<\/strong> Only Hungary (29.4 percent) and Romania (22.5 percent) have lower\u00a0rates of graduates than Italy. The European Statistical Institute<\/a>\u00a0labels these three countries as the worst performers.<\/p>\n

The country’s system is not keeping up. In the context of significant economic-productive changes that require more and new skills, Italy is in danger of falling behind in terms of growth and productivity. Looking at the data, Italy appears to be lagging\u00a0along the path that sets the goal of having 45 percent of the under-35s graduate by 2030. A goal that 13 member states <\/strong>(Ireland, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Malta, Poland, and Latvia) have already met.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to this group of countries, five member states are not far from the tertiary education target. They are Greece (44.5 percent of under-35 graduates), Estonia and Austria (43.5 percent), Portugal (40.9 percent), and Slovenia (40.7 percent).<\/p>\n

The twin\u00a0green and digital transition is in danger of becoming a conundrum, due to a shortage of qualified young people and training left to companies because of degrees never earned. But the problem for the country does not end there:\u00a0in addition to the low number of college graduates,\u00a0Italy has to deal with the gender issue<\/strong>. Among the few holders of tertiary education degrees, women outnumber men. It\u00a0implies having to enact policies that enable female graduates to balance work and private life<\/strong> in a country where we struggle to have children, with some starting late and others not starting at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat data show a country lagging the rest of the European Union. At the end of 2023, just 30.6 percent of those under 35 had a university degree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":364042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[26106,25746,26180,27974,26105,27973],"class_list":["post-364079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-degree-en","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-education-tertiary-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364079"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365398,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364079\/revisions\/365398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}