Mas kira-kira adakah korelasi juga, disana jumlah anak mudanya sedikit. Para ibu-ibu malas melahirkan karena biaya hidupnya sangat tinggi dan mereka memilih bekerja, hidup kumpul kebo tanpa mau punya anak. Yang saya dengar dari teman yang pernah dapet beasiswa di Jerman angka harapan hidupnya tinggi. jadi yang orangtua lebih banyak dibanding anak-anak kecilnya, loss generation? Benar nggak? Kalau ya...eks PHK Dirgantara bisa dikirim kesana... daripada di sini disia-siakan. Sayang sekali. Sambil membangun kekuatan untuk membangun negeri.
imuchtarom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Selama sekitar 10 tahun terakhir ini memang di jerman teramati menurunnya minat anak-2 muda jerman memilih bidang teknik (engineering) pada saat masuk bangku universitas. Sehingga jumlah tenaga insinyur yang dihasilkan oleh universitas-2 juga berkurang. Menurut analisis di bawah ini, kecenderungan menurun-nya minat masuk jurusan teknik teramati sejak tahun 1970 an dan konon kabarnya itu disebabkan oleh maraknya kesadaran akan perlunya kelestarian lingkungan, dan pada saat yang sama adalah berkembangnya persepsi bahwa kerusakan lingkungan selama ini banyak disebabkan oleh keberadaan industri-2 serta sarana transportasi yang dipandang sebagai *-hasil karya-* tukang-2 insinyur. Saya terus terang meragukan argumen di atas. Bukankah upaya pelestarian lingkungan itu sendiri, termasuk konservasi energi juga memerlukan keahlian teknik/engineering. Dunia teknik dalam 30 tahun terakhir ini (sejak "krisis minyak" tahun 1973-an) juga telah banyak berjasa memunculkan berbagai produk industri yang lebih hemat energi dan ramah lingkungaan ... *** Saya lebih cenderung menduga adanya 2 penyebab utama: ==> Meningkatnya daya tarik bidang-2 lain yang 'menyaingi' daya tarik bidang teknik, misalnya bidang bisnis & manajemen; misalnya dengan maraknya pendidikan MBA sejak tahun 1980 an ... Bidang pendidikan bisnis bisa jadi dianggap 'lebih mudah lulus' nya dibandingkan bidang teknik dan pada saat yang sama "menjanjikan imbalan" (gaji) yang lebih tinggi dibanding bidang teknik ==> "Kolot"/konservatif nya sistem pendidikan tinggi ( Diplom Ing ) di jerman/eropa yang bagi mereka yang pernah menempuh pendidikan tinggi di negara lain (mis. Anglosaxon) terasa "kurang efisien = menghabiskan umur", terutama sekali untuk bidang teknik. ( kami di lingkungan mahasiswa-2 bidang teknik di jerman memang sering "ngrasani", bahwa di kampus-2 jerman, kehidupan mahasiswa-2 bidang ilmu-2 sosial memang terkesan "lebih santai"; mereka ini yang lebih banyak waktu untuk konkouw-2 di kantin/bar /sekretariat senat mahasiswa dan biasanya mereka ini lah yang lebih "willing" untuk menjadi "aktivis kampus": mis. aktif di dalam berbagai gerakan-2 protes/demonstrasi khas mahasiswa :) > *** Satu lagi, artikel di bawah ini tidak membahas adanya "alternatif solusi" yang laen: yaitu dengan "mengundang" tenaga insinyur bangsa lain/asing, terutama yang memang hasil didikan universitas-2 di jerman ... There is no question, tentu saja di mana-2 tenaga asing relatif "lebih susah" mendapat pekerjaan dibanding tenaga-2 "pribumi" karena kepada mereka di kenakan peraturan-2 khusus. Khusus di kalangan imigran/asylum, kadang-2 saya juga mengamati sebagian dari merekan ini (yang misalnya mengungsi dari negaranya yang dilanda perang/konflik) punya kualifikasi yang cukup (pendidikan setingkat bachelor atau master), tetapi susah sekali mendapat pekerjaan di jerman, sehingga mereka terpaksa hanya hidup dari tunjangan sosial sebagai asylum. Sebuah artikel di majalah Newsweek pernah "ngrasani" bahwa di negara-2 eropa barat, bagi Asylum jauh lebih mudah untuk mendapatkan status sebagai "penerima tunjangan sosial" dibanding mendapatkan pekerjaan. Sementara di negara seperti AS, exactly the opposite is the case. ----( IM )--------------------------------------------------- < http://www.csmonitor.com > ------------------------------------ Germany alarmed at lack of engineers ------------------------------------ By Isabelle de Pommereau, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Thu Aug 10, 4:00 AM ET FRANKFURT - When high school junior Daria Schirmer conducted scientific experiments with 8-year-olds as part of a school project this year building a periscope or a compass with a magnet she became not only an inventor of sorts but also part of the solution to what looms as one of Germany's greatest challenges: how to keep its sterling reputation as the world's leader in engineering. For centuries, Germany led the world in technological prowess, from the motorcycle to the refrigerator. In the 19th century, inventors and entrepreneurs like Gottlieb Daimler, Carl Benz, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens developed products for brands still respected today. But over the past few years, young Germans have dramatically turned away from engineering and now, the country needs 18,000 engineers a third more than last year, according to the German Association of Engineers in Berlin. Alarmed that this gap could endanger Germany's engineering creativity, businesses are trying to stem the tide by launching a publicity campaign to make engineering sound like fun from kindergarten through university. "The image of engineers has never been so bad," says Markus Roeser of Do Things, a coalition of 80 businesses, universities, and research institutes created five months ago to fill the engineering gap. The group sponsors school projects, gives awards to youths making special scientific discoveries, awards scholarships, and helps engineering students find internships and young researchers commercialize their inventions. potential --------- "If we don't succeed in making young people enthusiastic about technical jobs again, we're running the risk of losing our place as the world's leading exporter," of manufactured goods and technologies, says Mr. Roeser. "The lack of engineers is Germany's No. 1 hindrance to innovation," says Roeser. "At stake is to keep Germany's creative potential." "Little Einstein Experiments," the pilot project that had pupils like Daria visit grade schools to do experiments every week, is the crux of this publicity campaign. Sponsored by the German state of Hessen's entrepreneurs association, it is meant to awaken scientific thirst early on. "Children are naturally curious about learning. It's important to encourage their enthusiasm so that the fun doing experiments lasts," says Monika Zieleniewicz, Daria's physics teacher at the Albert Einstein High School in suburban Frankfurt who supervised the program. "That's how you help develop children's motivation for those fields." "The focus has to be on the schools," says Benjamin Burde of the Berlin-based Mathematics and Science Excellence Centers in Schools, which supports mathematics, computers, science, and technology education. He notes that in Germany, those disciplines have almost disappeared from the school curriculum. How engineering lost its cachet Being an engineer no longer has the high status it once enjoyed. In the mid 1960s, 41 percent of Germans said engineering was a job they had a lot of admiration for. In 2001, only 22 percent said so, according to the Association of Engineers. A study by the Allensbach Research Institute, Germany's leading polling firm, found in 2003 that being an engineer ranked seventh among young people as a prestigious career behind pastors, doctors, and university professors. Part of Germany's engineering decline started in the 1970s as the environmental movement grew and people started questioning the impacts of ever-faster energy-hungry technologies on society and the environment. By making people skeptical about technological progress, it gradually hurt the prestige of engineering jobs, says Joerg Feuchhofen, head of the Association of Entrepreneurs in Hessen, which represents 100,000 entrepreneurs in the state of Hessen. "The Germans often looked at it as something that endangered the environment," says Mr. Feuchthofen. "That's a reason why the fields covering ... technology have lost ground in the education system." Ten years ago, there were twice as many engineering students at universities than today according to the German Association of Engineers. The problem isn't new. But attention was focused on the dearth of engineers this spring when Airbus-Germany announced it couldn't find 600 engineers needed as they gear up to expand their production over the next two years. "That Germany can't fulfill a major order in China that would have created many jobs was a big shock for the nation," says Roeser. Indeed, Airbus isn't the only firm hindered by Germany's current lack of engineers. Thirty percent of German employers say they are short engineers, according to a survey by the German Association of Engineers. "At least four or five years ago, people came to interviews," says Andrea Gossel of the Schunk Group, an international car- part manufacturer headquartered in the small village of Heuchelheim. 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