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  2. Professional stagnation

Professional stagnation

Nature

Professional stagnation is the inability of people trained in one field of knowledge or activity to make use of their talents in a manner which gives them satisfaction in another field. It is a limitation in people's ability to cope with changing situations.

Claim

Either the original training in tertiary education needs to be modified, or refresher courses need to be introduced to those who graduated 5, 10 or 15 years before. The education of the non-graduate population also needs modification or the problem of stagnation becomes a societal problem as developments in micro-electronics leave less and less scope for the time-consuming and labour intensive occupations that provide jobs for the major proportion of the adult population and which have, with more or less satisfaction, kept them occupied during more than half their waking hours.

Broader

Aggravated by

Value

Unprofessional
Yet to rate
Stagnation
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality EducationSustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Subject
Content quality
Presentable
 Presentable
Language
English
Last update
Nov 30, 2022