In the report under the title “Pas de rentrée pur les ‘Ni-Nis’”, Le Monde tells the story of 17-years old Yetzel Decerra living with his parents in the North of Mexico and one of the activists of the “Movement of the Excluded from Higher Education”, founded in 2006. “No place for me in public education, no money to study in the private, and no job” – Decerra recites his and his hundreds of thousand companions-in-misery. State ran universities are very high standard, yet they are few and far between (of 122 750 applicants this year to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, only 10 300 were offered a place; on the national scale, only one in three candidates can count on admission). Of 28 million Mexicans between 15 and 29 years of age, 19 million don’t attend any educational institution, while 7.5 million look for a job in vain. Decerra’s Movement of the Excluded fights for university places for 200 thousand impecunious yet eager to study youngsters.
A few thousand miles away from Mexico, the Polish government’s report commissioned from a group of experts, and published on the same day the Mexican case was reported in Le Monde, informs that in May 2010 people between 18 and 34 years of age made 50 per cent of Polish unemployed; while half of their number never held any kind of job. And that despite the fact that the number of students in Poland doubled in the course of the last two decades, whereas the number of higher education graduates multiplied by the factor of 2 ½. 60 per cent of young people currently earning salaries or wages draw them from fix-term or casual employment, offering neither career tracks nor any prospects of durability. Most of those quasi-jobs are well below their acquired skills and credentials.
Milan Kundera memorably observed that unification of humanity consists thus far in having nowhere to escape. How true… Perhaps for no one more than for the young, that sole foothold of humanity in the land of future… At any rate, some French observers haste to announce the arrival of the “Ni-Ni (not in employment, not in education) generation” – perhaps the first truly global of generations…
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