عرضه و تقاضاي ملي دانش آموختگان منابع طبيعي؛ تنگناها و راهكارها

National supply and demand of graduated persons of natural resources: limitations and solutions

In this research, national supply and demand of graduates in the fields of natural resources was studied. In the supply side, the annual admission of all state and open universities in the entire curriculums of natural resources fields was calculated. Based on the university reception data, 3659 job-seeking technicians, bachelors, masters and doctors of philosophy were graduated from state (46.5%), open universities (46%) and Elmi karbordi (7.5%) per year. In demand side, national statistics center publishes exclusively the national public and private employments at the level of economic sectors such as agriculture and natural resources or industries sector. Therefore, the employment in sub-sectors such as natural resources and wood industries was estimated based produced values added in 1382. This research revealed that the maximal demand of graduated persons in natural resources and wood industries sub-sectors was 974 persons per year. Hence, national supply (3659 persons) amounted to 3.7 times the national demand of graduated persons in the fields of natural resources. Consequently, the unemployment rate in natural resources fields was estimated to be 73%. This rate was almost 6 times the national unemployment rate in 1382. As a result, the imbalance of national supply and demand resulted in the high unemployment rate of graduated person and accordingly non-motivation of students. Some solutions such as decreasing the student admission of universities, more qualitative and employment-based education as well as offering new specialties in such fields were presented.