The Secretary General of the Higher Population Council (HPC) Dr Sawsan Majali confirmed that a work force with a higher level of technical & vocational education has the most ability to utilize the use of modern technology. Since modern technology plays a significant role in strengthening the workforce's capacity to acquire the skills and knowhow suitable to meet the needs of the labor market.
Majali stressed the need to create the necessary policies to take advantage of the expected increase in the size of the labor force. This requires addressing some important issues concerning the extent of harmonizing the outputs of education with the actual requirements of the labor market and its quality. Pointing out that the working age population at the peak of the demographic opportunity in 2030 is expected to reach 69%, compared with the current 59.5%.
Majali indicated that the relative distribution of unemployed Jordanians shows that 40% of them hold a Bachelor's degree or higher, adding that Jordan was ranked 56 on the Higher Education and Training indicator in the Global Competitiveness Report, which included 148 countries.
It is worth mentioning that this meeting comes within a series of meetings the Presidents and Dean's Councils in the Jordanian universities in order to discuss the importance of investing in the demographic opportunity and to integrate its main concepts into the curriculum, educational programs, training, educational tools, and research activities in the various stages of education.
For his part, president of Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Dr. Alkhamis, stressed on the importance of information, data and results presented by the Higher Population Council and providing such data to policy-makers , decision-makers and concerned stakeholders, expressing hope that these findings and recommendations will be taken into account by the decision-makers.
Dr. Alkhamis stressed the need to hold more meetings and continuous communication with stakeholders in the governorates due to the urgent need for them to be aware of these results & data and in order to use them in a way that contributes to promoting development in those governorates.
