Romanians have little interest in developing new skills and digital abilities that would help them advance professionally, ranking last in the EU in online education, according to Eurostat data.
Thus, only 10% of Romanians with Internet access have taken some form of online education, which places Romania in last place in the EU, far from the lead held by Ireland (61% of users), the Netherlands (59%) or Finland (53%).
Although they enroll in training courses in various fields, some Romanians have a harmful mentality – they do not want to learn, but only want to obtain an accredited diploma, which will ”certify” them of skills that they have not acquired, shows an analysis of the behavior of course consumers carried out by APSAP.
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In addition, Romanians are deficient in developing new skills because they abandon training courses. Over 30% of those enrolled drop out before the training begins, most often when people find out that they have to submit documents proving their studies, they have to allocate real-time for theoretical and practical training, there are assessments and an exam at the end.
The interest in developing new skills is correlated with the low level of education of the majority of the population. According to Eurostat, Romania ranks last in the European Union in terms of the number of young people with university degrees, with only 1 in 4 young people completing a form of higher education. At EU level, 42% of people aged 25 to 34 are university graduates.