Mexico: Linking Public University with the Working Sector

Abstract

This research arises from the desire to discover why young graduates of Higher Education Institutions in Mexico (HEI), find it difficult to find work, many others are inserted in activities that do not match with their profile, even though they have received a high quality education. It will perhaps ¿be that graduates do not have the skills required to contend in the current context of globalization? This research analyzed from a statistical perspective the trend highlighted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD-2012) in relation with the unique phenomenon that occurs in Mexico among the member countries of the international organization, because the higher unemployment rate occurs among the most educated people. However the policy that links Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with the labor sector in Mexico is raised for the first time in the 1989-1994 Education Modernization Program; after more than two decades the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEG, 2014), indicates that the Unemployment Rate among people with higher education accounted to 78.4% and 60% underemployment; contrary to it noted that unemployment for the population that has completed junior high school studies represented 21.6% and 40% underemployment.