About ten percent of graduates of the School of Health Technology of Lisbon (ESTeSL) in 2013/14 they emigrated, mainly to the UK, for employment, according to a survey institution.
Speaking to Lusa, the professor David Tavares explained that the processing of the survey results is still at a preliminary stage, but has allowed detect major trends of this new type of emigrant, in addition to the weight, recent emigration in career opportunities.
by the way, David Tavares recalled that the first study on the employability of recent graduates of the School is 2008/09 and that “the question of emigration did not arise in height. “
the survey fieldwork was conducted in the last quarter of 2015 and covered 374 graduates, registering a percentage of 80% responses, said Tavares, who is a teacher coordinator at ESTeSL, where he teaches sociology of health.
the study found that most of these emigrants in the British Isles is placed on the national health service and the departure abroad appeared to him as a fallback solution.
Another important feature determined was the placements in the UK have resulted in a predominant way, in response to tenders, and not the use of personal contact networks.
by the way, the quality of Portuguese courses motivates potential recruiters travel to polytechnics to promote destinations such as the UK, stressed David Tavares, who has been chairman of the ESTeSL Scientific Council and UN consultant.
the investigation also identified a higher stabilization in bonds professionals of these immigrants compared to those who were in Portugal, since 60% of those are for an indefinite period, compared with 25% of graduates universe.
Similarly, 50% of migrants they are “very satisfied” with their work situation, compared with 24% of the pool, which allows them to begin to point to medium-term professional projects, such as “increase training” (47% among the emigres; 25% among those who were) and “career advancement”, with respective values of 37% and 25%.
This satisfaction is also based on the understanding that the function performed is the most suitable for school education with 87% of émigrés to consider their fully appropriate functions to the drawn course, well above the global average of 48%.
in remunerative terms, even making relative to the standard of living, 80% of placed on UK earn more than the equivalent of 1,500 euros net, a distant reality of the Portuguese, concluded David Tavares, who has just published the book “Introduction to Sociology of Health” and coordinates this subject area in the Portuguese Sociological Association.
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