Not only Slovakia has a problem with the lack of IT experts
In this context, Fit Education will draw attention to the planned reform of higher education. According to him, it is questionable whether it will bring support to these very fields of study, which are supremely practically oriented. “Because if they are evaluated for scientific work in practical fields such as information technology, professors, associate professors and assistant professors will focus on writing papers and producing, for example, professional bachelors, which is possible in many cases.” sufficient qualifications in informatics, ” Fitos said. He illustrated this with the example of Estonia, where 70% of IT professionals complete their bachelor’s studies and then go into practice. According to him, the issue of higher education would be good to understand differently and it is necessary to look especially at trade unions, where the success rate of graduates in finding a job is close to zero.
The second way to solve the problem of the lack of experts is to attract them from abroad. “This is how the Czech Republic works, which already draws students and then IT specialists from abroad. This is how Poland works, where there are a few hundred thousand people from Ukraine – of course, it’s not just IT ‘players’ – and now there are crowds of computer scientists from Belarus.” Fitoš compared, however, with the fact that Slovakia is completely apathetic in this respect.
“Our political rhetoric is that we don’t want immigrants, even though they were highly qualified people with great added value. It is impossible not to pay for this rhetoric.” said Fitoš, adding that ITAS, together with partners, has created a program for finding talent from third countries. “We managed to get to Slovakia dozens of skilled IT students from Ukraine, we are working on the arrival of Moldovan ‘itečkáři’. However, the state helps us only to a limited extent, there is no system support for similar projects.” concluded Fitos.