"Education system flooded by the mediocre"

CÁDIZ PROVINCE (Agencies) Economist Rafael Carbó says, "If a company is looking for engineers but the labour market offers only brick layers, we have a problem." His words come to illustrate the dangerously low level of the province's educational results. Cádiz has the lowest per capita income of the country, undoubtedly a consequence of its 'pathetic' education system. A survey of 170 students at 2nd Level Teacher's Training (Magisterio) revealed that 93% admitted to not having a vocation. They were studying to become a civl servant, as good as a 'job for life'. The system that creates teachers does so by measuring only their capacity for memorization. In the North of Europe, where teachers get the respect they deserve as the 'guardians of the future', public administrations give them an indefinite employment contract that allows them to be evaluated over a period of time. If they are not suited, alternatives can and will be found within the system. "Anything else," concludes Carbó, "and the system gets flooded by the mediocre."