these include the poor development of skills in the schools that supply students limited study options in tertiary education that are not always well aligned with the needs of the labour market uncertainty about the value of credentials limited collaboration between universities and firms limited career guidance services and the scarcity of public funds for research and teaching activities this negatively affects their performance in university the vast majority of students enrolled in year programmes in the north of the country and above in the south report that they want to complete a year programme almalaurea