The industrial revolution designed a person with a well-defined life cycle: with a period of training, another of working on what was formed, and finally a period of retirement.
But everything is already changing at an accelerated pace.
Now, people must learn throughout their lives and learn to unlearn in order to relearn new things, experts say.
In addition, changes in life expectancy means that after the age of 60 people must continue to be linked to
a job market that changes rapidly
at the speed of the digital revolution, and which
requires everyone to continue training and improving themselves
.
Such changes -social and labor- generate
shocks in the university world
, the field of professional training.
Throughout the world, experts and institutions are debating how to deal with them, when most offer
long courses
, designed for young people leaving high school, and with a single format and terminality, that is, it is assumed that only when they finish studying do they start from Zero in a job.
In Argentina, races are even longer on average than in the rest of the world.
The answer with the most consensus -and with more force in Europe and the United States-, are the so-called
"microcredentials"
.
What is it about?
They are small university courses, with a specific content that
accredits certain skills and competencies
that solve
specific needs that arise in the market or in the industry
.
Voices are heard against universities adapting their formats to the needs of companies.
Others affirm that, if they do not do it, the universities will lose relevance, because
the companies will do it on their own
and people will go there to train.
In fact, today many companies already offer training that accredits certain skills.
Micro-credentials, lifelong learning: all of this has been discussed in recent years, and will be discussed again at the beginning of May, in Valencia, Spain, when nearly 700 rectors and experts from 14 countries will meet -among them Argentines- at the V International Meeting of Rectors of the Universia network.
Sunk in its urgencies, Argentina seems oblivious to these debates.
But
it's not.
In fact, the Government and the rectors of the national universities have already agreed to review the duration of the careers and expand the intermediate titles.
But little progress is made.
Surely, the State should get more involved if it wants
a comprehensive and critical education
.
Something that cannot be left only in the hands of companies.
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