Diverse studies, both of universities and professional associations and consultants, show that the employment rate of graduates in telecommunications is virtually full, with occupancy rates close to 95%.

This has been one of the data observed in the annual meeting of CODIGAT, the Lecture of school directors with engineering degrees in the field of telecommunication, organised from 26 to 28 June by the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV) and the Official College of Telecommunications Engineering (COITT), in which thirty academic managers in Spain, along with officials from the professional association, have dealt with various academic, technological and professional aspects related to the present and future of these degrees.

The mentioned employability studies, including those developed by the Gijón Polytechnic School of Engineering, by the European University of Madrid, by the Technical School (EPS) of the University of Alcalá, by the Telecommunication School of the Technical University of Madrid (EUITT) of the Technical University of Madrid, by the Official College of Telecommunications Engineering (COITT) and by the Adecco group, confirmed that the high demand for qualified professionals in telecommunications is maintained, that more than 80% of students find employment related to their degree in less than six months after completing their studies and that in cases of mobility they find a new job in less than three months.

Nevertheless, the academic and professional managers have expressed concern about the decreasing number of vocations to this engineering branch, whereby the Lecture has proposed various strategies to transmit to society and potential students the interest for the engineering degrees in the field of communication, the need of these profiles for the socioeconomic development of the 21st century as well as its high employability, range of job opportunities and career possibilities.

Also, the meeting has worked and identified new demands and new spheres of action, such as mobile applications or role of telecommunication technologies in the development of smart cities, and has analysed how to adapt or include interdisciplinary training aspects in telecommunication studies.

Finally, the lecture of school directors with engineering degrees in the field of telecommunication (CODIGAT) has approved its joining to the document “In support of Technology Education” sponsored by the State Platform for Technology Teaching Staff Associations in order to request the inclusion and reinforcement of the contents of Technology in the proposal to Organic Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality (LOMCE)