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Demand For Teachers, Nurses, Doctors to Increase
posted (February 1, 2019)
The IDB released a new study today called "Education and Health: The Sectors of the Future?". It says that Belize will need 9,000 teachers, 1,000 doctors and 2,000 nurses by the year 2040.

Now, those future doctors, nurses and teachers haven't yet started their working life, and the purpose of the IDB study is to, quote, "ensure that these new professionals have the skills and training they need to be the teachers, doctors and nurses of the future."

The publication shows figures which establish that the income of teachers, doctors and nurses in Latin America and the Caribbean has grown significantly in recent years, and that "these professionals are more likely to receive a pension in old age than other professionals such as engineers, lawyers, journalists or accountants."




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