سوق العمل أهدر جودة التعليم : دراسة نقدية لخطاب عدم مواءمة المخرجات التعليمية لاحتياجات سوق العمل في مصر

الملخص EN

Decades of holding the educational institution, and through it the graduates themselves, responsible for the ever-increasing unemployment rates of graduates and the deterioration of their labour market outcomes, and decades of recommending solutions limited to education and training, did not bear fruit, as graduate unemployment is still increasing, their labour market outcomes deteriorating, and most importantly, the quality of education itself in terms of its relationship with labour market declining.

Therefore, the current study took a critical approach to investigate the relationship between education and labour market in Egypt, refuting the discourse of educational outcomes/labour market demands mismatch.

By examining the latest data of the Egyptian labour market, it was found to be biased against the educated, youth and females in favor of the illiterate, the semi-literate and the elderly, a state the study attributed to the low quality of the jobs created.

As a result, graduates in from taking these jobs, not because graduates are not qualified for them, or because they are well-off, but because they are highly educated for them, as most of the new job created belong to informal economy with its low-quality jobs in terms of wages and working conditions.

The study attributed this state of affairs to the biased economic policies that curb competition in the private sector, and thus hamper the creation of good new jobs, forcing everyone, the educated and the uneducated, and especially the latter, to accept work in the low-quality jobs created in the informal private sector that has recently inflated to fill the gap arising from the withdrawal of the state from employment and the inability of the formal private sector to replace it.

Educationally, the study concluded that the deteriorating labour market and the deteriorating graduate labour market outcomes reduced the quality of educational outcomes, represented in graduates, and the processes lying behind them in the educational institution.

That is, because of the deterioration of labour market in terms of number and quality of jobs, students, families and the educational institution came to neglect the quality of education due to its weak relationship with social mobility and improving the standard of living through decent work opportunities.

Finally, the study placed that relationship between education and the labour market, as revealed in the Egyptian case, within the theoretical spectrum explaining it, and refuted the solutions that are usually proposed to overcome unemployment through interventions limited to education and training, and proposed a number of recommendations for both economic and educational policies, and further research.