Technology industry worried about lack of proper education
The government wants to increase its engineering education by 2,300 places in the next two years. The initiative is welcomed by the Teknikföretagen and the Swedish engineers, who, however, wanted to see more resources to reduce the graduation from the courses. In the budget bill for 2020, the government is investing in an extension of so-called socially important education. The purpose is to overcome the lack of skills in the labor market and strengthen Sweden's competitiveness. Engineering courses in the country will be strengthened by approximately 200 million in order to be able to offer places to an additional 2300 full-year students during the remainder of the term. - It is very positive, and also very fun that you now judge engineering education as socially critical. We see that technical knowledge is important for our companies, but in the future they will also be important in areas that have not been traditionally engineering-intensive, ”says Frida Andersson,