In den EU -Ländern hatten Irland (65,2%), Luxemburg (63,8%) und Zypern (60,1%) im Jahr 2024 die höchsten Errungenschaftsrate der tertiären Bildung, während Rumänien (23,2%), Italien (31,6%) und Hungary (32,3%) die niedrigsten Raten hatten.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250904-1
Von Dazzling_Lobster3656
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I see people are immediately trying to downvote this.
One wonders why.
I think its important to be concsious of the potential for this information to be skewed by differing educational systems. For example, some countries consider areas such as nursing, vet technicians, low level engineering and technical fields as specialised secondary schools which would fall outside of the tertiary system.
Another aspect is that IMO many countries such as Ireland equate high levels of people in higher education with a successful system even if the quality of courses and level of improving the persons prospects are lacking.
This isn’t necessarily good or bad. In general it’s a good signifier of prosperity that majority of population pursue tertiary education but then again there’s a certain critical mass it hits where the marginal returns on this likely diminish to point of being negative.
We all know people who pursued absolutely pointless degrees that were of zero utility to them & just delayed their entry & experience into the workforce in a sector they actually enjoyed.
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Ireland never had much in the way of natural resources, and we aren’t in a great position for heavy manufacturing, so the only way for the country to start making decent money was by educating people. And whatever your feelings about the education system we’ve done pretty well with that strategy for the last few decades. I’d imagine Luxembourg would be similar.
It’s odd the fixation people have with certain statistics in this country and the wrong conclusions they draw from them. Because of a fixation we have with university we have a gross oversupply of graduates many with poor/second rate degrees and a shortage of skilled labour. This gap is filled by immigration and (drum roll) housing shortages driven by a skills gap amongst other things. I think [Jimmy Carr’s analysis is spot on ](https://www.tiktok.com/@steven/video/7382945682010688800)here.
It’s amazing people find negativities in this. We’ve one of the most educated workforces in the world. It’s an incredible achievement
Get ready for everyone to tell you that it’s actually BAD that we have so many university-educated people, and that we should be more like Germany where you get streamed towards working-class / trade jobs at age 10 and can have a career working in large manufacturing industries that do not exist in Ireland (and are existing less and less in Germany, and their education system is becoming stratified along ethnic lines) but anyway, the point is, Ireland sucks!!
I wonder if we’ve focused too much on raising 3rd level education at the cost of neglecting training in blue collar work.
On the continent you can learn a whole host of trades in technical schools where you’re taught by professional teachers. In Ireland you have to find someone willing to take you on as an apprentice and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be a good teacher.
It’s no wonder why foreign builders are so much more skilled and reliable than Irish ones.
Also, we tend to look down on the attainment of blue collar skills as less of an achievement than a college degree. That level of snobbery has done us no favours in the long run.