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MINERALS INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING II

A point that must be kept in mind is that students who have finished their
studies but have not graduated also compete for jobs, in many cases
getting their degrees several semesters or even years after leaving school,
so this group can be an additional competing factor in work positions.

As a result, it can be stated that the careers linked with mining are not
sustainable according to the effort and money invested in studying a long
career and considering how costly is now education in Chile, all this in
relation to the number of careers opened nowadays and the projected
demand for professionals.

Finally, a question may be asked: Is it necessary for the State to invest
money in training professionals with such an uncertain occupational
future?

Conclusions and Recommendations

The academic exercise made in this paper gives a view of the perspective
faced by mining engineers. Based on the sources examined and on the
projected scenarios and the assumptions made, employability by 2023
may, in the best case, be close to 43%, and in the worst case around 12%.

One recommendation for the State is it must establish development
policies for the country at middle and long-range in order to answer
questions such as: what do we want to be or where do we want to be ten
or thirty years from now? This would allow setting goals, and according
to them, establish policies and plan the actions to achieve them, so it can
be made better use of the resources to finance those careers that have
priority for the country and will allow reaching those goals.

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