{"id":18438,"date":"2019-07-13T19:32:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18438"},"modified":"2019-07-13T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T19:32:59","slug":"mtuc-blames-education-for-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/mtuc-blames-education-for-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"MTUC blames education for unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtuc.org.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTUC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) has stated that <strong>Malaysia is facing a severe wave of youth unemployment<\/strong> because the educational system does not prepare high school graduates for starting work.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTUC secretary-general J Solomon has said that <strong>the current educational system does not place enough emphasis on what the labor market is and how it works.<\/strong> Currently, the main focus of high schools students is to achieve good grades, so that they can continue to higher education.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, not all students decide to go to university. Thus <strong>a significant portion of young adults who choose to enter the job market right after high school are unprepared<\/strong> and cannot manage to hold or even secure a job.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Government measures battling unemployment<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MTUC has expressed concerns about the rise in youth unemployment, as this means <strong>there is a significant deficit on the job market.<\/strong> According to the Union Congress, the only way to revert this trend is by considerable policy changes introduced by the government.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTUC is adamant that the Malaysian <strong>educational system should provide more detailed information to graduating students about their rights and obligations once they become active in the labor market.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One other recommendation by the MTUC is that the government should invest more time in boosting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/unesco-advocates-broadband-for-education-via-ict-whats-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">vocational training<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> so that more students acquire practical skills during their high school education.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These reforms are more than necessary as research has shown that <strong>around thirty to forty percent of high school graduates do not go after tertiary education.<\/strong> This is close to half of all students, which means that they should be prepared to get into good paying jobs after they graduate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has stated that Malaysia is facing a severe wave of youth unemployment because the educational system does not prepare high school graduates for starting work. MTUC secretary-general J Solomon has said that the current educational system does not place enough emphasis on what the labor market is and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[479,673,684,880,1471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}