LA VALLETTA (MALTA) (ITALPRESS/MNA) – According to data issued by Eurostar, the Maltese graduates are the most likely in Europe to find immediate job, with almost 96% of graduates finding a job within three years of finishing their studies. The employment rate of graduates in Malta has remained high throughout most of this century but had dipped below the 90% mark for the first time in two decades in 2021 and 2022, as graduate employment rates dropped throughout Europe following the outbreak of COVID-19.
But 2023 saw this bounce back to an almost all-time high of 95.8%, well above the European average of 83.5% and just above second-placed the Netherlands. Malta remains the only Mediterranean or Southern European country to register a rate above the EU average. Other Mediterranean states, from Cyprus (80.6%) to Spain (78.7%), France (80.1%) and Greece (72.3%) drag the EU average down, with neighbouring Italy propping up the European table at 67.5%. Just over 96% of graduates with a tertiary education find a job within one to three years of graduation, while this figure drops slightly to 90% for those with a non-tertiary education. Although Malta is succeeding in getting graduates into jobs, it is battling to get students to stay in school in the first place, with a government strategy launched last year hoping to bring Maltàs rate of early school leavers in line with the EU average. Currently, one in ten 18-24 year-olds in Malta are early-school leavers. This remains above the EU median, with the strategy aiming to bring this down to 9% by 2030.
(ITALPRESS).
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