The Race Between Education & Technology
Check out this new publication by Vught, F.A. van, of University of Twente, the Netherlands, a partner institution of Hedda.
Youth, Education and the Labour Market
Brussels, Group of Societal Policy Advisors, European Commission, 2006, 15 p.
In this paper Frans van Vught, member of the Group of Societal Policy Advisors of the European Commission, addresses in particular "the second pillar of the knowledge society". He discusses the achievements of the European education systems and explores the development of the qualification structure of the European labour force. The argument presented is that a knowledge-intensive economy produces wage inequality, leading to increasing inequalities between less and better skilled new entrants to the labour market. In addition, it is argued that the ‘knowledge society’ has created a race between education and technology, a race that is increasingly being lost by education.