By Jacobo Medina
There are many students who, once they finish their high school studies, decide to immerse themselves in the university world to build a future and thus be able to compete for a job in the future. The ...
There are many students who, once they finish their high school studies, decide to immerse themselves in the university world to build a future and thus be able to compete for a job in the
future.
The latest statistics on the number of enrollments in Canarian universities are devastating. 17% of the places offered by the ULPGC and ULL were vacant in the 2012/2013 academic year, and yes, the consequence of this is that they have not gone out to study because they do not have economic resources, or because many of the students have chosen to go to study on the peninsula. There is a paradox
of some parents who prefer to take out a mortgage before their children study in the Canary Islands, something illogical and unfounded, as many families reject Canarian education, our own, in order to obtain a certain prestige, and we do not realize that Canarian universities have a good level of learning. I defend at all times those students who, because they have a low grade, cannot study in the Canary Islands and have to choose other
parts of Spain, but I do not share the option of students who go to the peninsula when they can study in the Canary Islands; many of the children of our politicians study at universities on the peninsula, and they are the ones who should set an example for Canarian citizens.
Lanzarote, being a non-capital island, struggles every day with wanting but not being able, not being able to study because families do not have economic resources, not being able to project a university campus in Lanzarote because
there is no funding, not being able to lower the shopping basket because big businessmen put obstacles to the implementation of large businesses such as Mercadona, not being able to...
Let's not forget that 40% of young Canarians still live with their parents, and they want to live independently, to emancipate themselves from the
family home, but not finding a job and not being able to train due to lack of resources means that we are facing a lost generation. In the Canary Islands, youth employment plans must be created
that get young people out of the well, and not wait for the long-awaited millions from Europe to arrive, as the Canary Islands, being the second Autonomous Community with the highest rate of youth unemployment, cannot afford to wait for "Merkel".
The crisis has meant that overqualified young people have a sub-employment job, and many young people in desperation have opted for the only thing left, to work at whatever, even if they pay
little and it has nothing to do with their student training.
Young Canarians are at a crossroads; young people without resources to go to study, young people with degrees and without work, young people who are thinking of emigrating, and sometimes wanting is not being able to.
Signed
Jacobo Medina
