In the last five years, the number of students pursuing careers related to technology or engineering in Mexico has fallen by 36.1%which means a reduction in qualified personnel for new companies that settle in the country in the trend of relocation and bringing production chains closer to consumers known as “nearshoringAccording to a study released this Monday.
Research on the educational situation in Mexico, carried out by the Japanese Kumon Institute, also pointed out that this could affect the country economically in the next decade.
In the 2018-2019 cycle, a total of 53,747 graduate students were registered in Mexico City, while for the 2021-2022 school period, the graduates dropped to 34,332”, Kumon deepened through a statement.
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According to the data, collected by the General Directorate of Educational Planning, Programming and Statistics, the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), in engineering careers there were more than 125,000 students registered in 2019 and, although there are still no figures for 2022, a reduction of between 30% and 35% is estimated.
The ‘other’ effects of the pandemic
According to the company, which specializes in training in mathematics, reading and English, After the coronavirus pandemic, there was also a reduction of about 5% in primary school enrollment throughout the country.
In primary education there has been a decrease at the national level in the last five years of -4.7%, going from 13.08 million students enrolled in the 2018-2019 cycle, to 12.45 in the 2022-2023 cycle.
The break in the face-to-face training of students during the pandemic has caused an academic delay in basic level students of three to four school cycles and four out of five students present deficiencies in their academic level, according to tests carried out by the company in Mexico.
In this sense, the manager for Kumon in Mexico and Central America, Christian Banda, maintained that virtual teaching had a negative impact on Mexican students, especially in subjects such as mathematics or English.
With the pandemic coming to an end, there are difficulties in the level of student learning. However, children and young people already use devices in their daily lives to entertain themselves, it is only necessary to change that approach so that they use them for their studies,” Banda emphasized in the statement.
For his part, the president of Kumon for Mexico and Central America, Luis Chiba Ramayoni, He warned that this whole context can also accentuate the lack of qualified personnel to nurture foreign companies that settle in Mexico to bring their production chains closer to the US market.
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