Opinion : "Our youth unemployment: Incompetent or hindered by the system?"
With our education landscapes are always subjected to political circus, it's makes no surprise that such selfish motivation by our politician that always playing about such critical issues to the parliamentary discourse are no way making any of our generation much easier to survive the reality. So I think there is some pressing issues around the news of late, that enough to garner myself an attention, to write about my opinion, in regards to the topic above.
Let's takes the example. The long-standing battle of our politician and ministry of education in regards of english languages as an indefinite term for secondary education, the separation of religion apart from general education courses, and the latest fiasco being waged around stream system, which by any means wouldn't render anything better for our new generation of students and their long consequences impact around our job market later on.
In term of recently introduction to do stream-less education path, or the non-streaming art or science path for secondary levels education next years, it was hoped by those higher administration decisionmakers of this country, that such flexibility would allowed the next-generation students to be moulded in accordance to the industry needs. The industy's needs is a big pressing issues here, as a new generation of the local workforces would need to adapt Industrial 4.0 or "IR4.0" (Stands for Industrial Revolution 4.0) as soon as it could. This is also with the fact that the world that we living today have been fundamentally altered from the previous decade immersely, due to the advancement in IT (Information Technology), in which the important parts that fueled the growth of IR4.0, that our education system are desperately trying to keep up with.
The problem is for now, at domestic levels, unemployment around university and college graduates in this country are at all-times high. A study by The Education Ministry’s Malaysia’s Graduate Tracer Study (SKPG) for 2018 recently revealed that 30,765 persons or 59.9% of the 51,365 graduates have been unemployed for more than one year. That alone would be a key indicator that layered around the several factors, but lets take a look of condensed words from TheStar by Siti Kasim, in her "Siti Light's" opinion column, which she wrote :
"1. Our economic growth is insufficient to absorb the number of graduates being produced by our local universities, or
2. There is a gross mismatch supply and demand mismatch
between the types of graduates being produced and the requirements of
the economy, or
3. The graduates being produced are not of the calibre or quality good enough for employment, or
4. All or a combination of the above.
No details were provided by the Education Minister to help us decipher the real issues behind this failure; 40% employment success is by any measure an F."
As the so-called New Malaysia', or Malaysia Baru' as the Rakyat's coined in since last years, things going from arguably on steady inflation of domestic macroeconomic runs all the way plumetted into worse for now. The new government led by Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition doesnt seems to be clear on its path, our stock market are plumetted down by investor's uncertainty of our political stands by its leader, fiscals to alter the ways for new market corridors arent that good or convincing enough to marching a local or overseas investor for it to be made, all at the cost of angered public opinions and less and less growth by the market players which could only meant an even smaller job markets to be made.
And yet, the graduate from university and colleges leaver are only getting bigger, even when our education system are at all its honesty, in its direst states of competency. This also spawned the long, roundtable discussion of about how incompetent our graduate, locally. It also a reasons that has long became a tradition of excuses for the job market made by all the industry players to not granting those graduate any hopes for permanent jobs as industrial indicator suggested.
Imagine how broke all those future generations, by a trickle-down mistakes from atop of the others. But for most, it might not be around the issues of whether the chosen stream, in either art or science, is the path that would lead them (the student) into such mess.
If there is any, anything that would help those students, even a once brightly-shined student at his or her university or college that is now down under a burden of reality that they are unable to secure a permanent employment or job that within their profficiency or around the scopes that they are trained into during those painfully-long learning years around the educational paths, it would be a least for those from higher administration of this county, and by responsibility of the market players, to introduce an even better, well-planned, highly constructed, re-training programme as parts of the commitment to nurture those local talents to keep themselves up to the pace.
Not by just an excuses of lack of local graduate that really up to the market's needs and to render most of them are just incompetent to be able to even to be considered for such job. No.
Retraining, or re-train the potential candidate to suit-up the current market needs is always one of the priority that the government should always looked upon into for their annual budgetary spending. It would be an alternative to absorb more local talents than the foreigner or imported worker group, and at the same time, allowing our own local educational institutional to be looked upon brighter sight, by producing a competitive domestic workforces that able to fill the gap of labour shortage around this country.
Furthermore, with correct and well-thought fiscals that leveraged on persuasion for more of retraining programme to be put as parts of corporate responsibilities, which, for example, to give them an incentive of doing so with tax-cuts allowance and benefits from government policies, might able to move the notion of ill-educated, and incompetent graduate from our soil.
For example, government-funded specific retraining programme that is made with conjunction of industry players, the economic movers. While corporation and businesses is all about profit-first as an "absolute" policy, this can be achieved through well-planned fiscal policy that would allowed a winning packages of co-operation in-between the government side and the industry players, both private or corporation, to implement a comprehensive retraining program to absorb more locals job seeker into the workforces on permanent term. It would reduce the unemployment rate as part of proactive measures that the industry always looked into, plus, an indirect appreciation of own currency as labour market by locals competitiveness spurred more demands for local currency to be in circulation. It also would improve the images of both educational sectors by being able to produce a graduate that able to be absorp into the real-world working environment, and improving our images tremendously in global outlook as a nation that capable to drive its most valuable assets, its own citizen, to be in competitive edges around the job market sector.
The potential for such trickled-down factors of improvement keeps on going if such welfare is being leveraged by our government and politician to drive it forward. I'm sure of it.
Such comprehensive re-train and retraining programme are always exist in large prison-industrial complex around the western world, with either federal-sponsored or in conjunction within the industrial players itself. When equipped with skills needed to enter a job market, the offenders are on the lower side of being a repeated felony. And, dont forget, the desperation out of unemployment around the youth, are also a key factor of criminals to happen. We surely wouldnt want a criminal-rampant society dominated by a former universities or colleges graduate to filling-up the national criminal index around the country.
Those unemployed, so-called "incompetent" graduate, are more than just an assets to this country. Their are the backbone that would drive the future of nations. And there is plenty more of them that eagerly waited to strive and to serve for any chances to be given upon them. They would doing their best, just like the older generation that filled most of the job position or career path that should be bestow upon them, as the fundamental of the new industrial means are sided around them.
As more and more of them filled the unemployment statistics, what would be the future of our nation going to be, if it going to aspire the next-generation to build it into something better than what we currently deal with now? You wouldnt be inspired by the cases of unemployment youth that is well-educated to pilling up the statistic of being jobless from year to year.
Indirectly, those statistic might also affect our education institutional, which is also parts of a bigger economic mover for this country by employment sector and its impact on society. If anything that is considered to be part of how one society can collapse into a hopeful prospect to a downward spirral of endless brink of darkness, it would be the distrust and lack of enthusiasm toward educational insititutional.
To end this write-up, I am a proponent for such policies to be implemented by the government, to the extend of corporation and well-earning private companies. Because it would help, despite there is admittedly a shortcoming and a "false promise" behind it that is yet to be settled. It still better than nothing, and to let the potential future workforces that has been ours for so long to just sit and rotten within despair and loss of trust in the higher administration of this country, the educational system that put them into such condition at first places shouldn't be looked lightly.
3. The graduates being produced are not of the calibre or quality good enough for employment, or
4. All or a combination of the above.
No details were provided by the Education Minister to help us decipher the real issues behind this failure; 40% employment success is by any measure an F."
As the so-called New Malaysia', or Malaysia Baru' as the Rakyat's coined in since last years, things going from arguably on steady inflation of domestic macroeconomic runs all the way plumetted into worse for now. The new government led by Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition doesnt seems to be clear on its path, our stock market are plumetted down by investor's uncertainty of our political stands by its leader, fiscals to alter the ways for new market corridors arent that good or convincing enough to marching a local or overseas investor for it to be made, all at the cost of angered public opinions and less and less growth by the market players which could only meant an even smaller job markets to be made.
And yet, the graduate from university and colleges leaver are only getting bigger, even when our education system are at all its honesty, in its direst states of competency. This also spawned the long, roundtable discussion of about how incompetent our graduate, locally. It also a reasons that has long became a tradition of excuses for the job market made by all the industry players to not granting those graduate any hopes for permanent jobs as industrial indicator suggested.
Imagine how broke all those future generations, by a trickle-down mistakes from atop of the others. But for most, it might not be around the issues of whether the chosen stream, in either art or science, is the path that would lead them (the student) into such mess.
If there is any, anything that would help those students, even a once brightly-shined student at his or her university or college that is now down under a burden of reality that they are unable to secure a permanent employment or job that within their profficiency or around the scopes that they are trained into during those painfully-long learning years around the educational paths, it would be a least for those from higher administration of this county, and by responsibility of the market players, to introduce an even better, well-planned, highly constructed, re-training programme as parts of the commitment to nurture those local talents to keep themselves up to the pace.
Not by just an excuses of lack of local graduate that really up to the market's needs and to render most of them are just incompetent to be able to even to be considered for such job. No.
Retraining, or re-train the potential candidate to suit-up the current market needs is always one of the priority that the government should always looked upon into for their annual budgetary spending. It would be an alternative to absorb more local talents than the foreigner or imported worker group, and at the same time, allowing our own local educational institutional to be looked upon brighter sight, by producing a competitive domestic workforces that able to fill the gap of labour shortage around this country.
Furthermore, with correct and well-thought fiscals that leveraged on persuasion for more of retraining programme to be put as parts of corporate responsibilities, which, for example, to give them an incentive of doing so with tax-cuts allowance and benefits from government policies, might able to move the notion of ill-educated, and incompetent graduate from our soil.
For example, government-funded specific retraining programme that is made with conjunction of industry players, the economic movers. While corporation and businesses is all about profit-first as an "absolute" policy, this can be achieved through well-planned fiscal policy that would allowed a winning packages of co-operation in-between the government side and the industry players, both private or corporation, to implement a comprehensive retraining program to absorb more locals job seeker into the workforces on permanent term. It would reduce the unemployment rate as part of proactive measures that the industry always looked into, plus, an indirect appreciation of own currency as labour market by locals competitiveness spurred more demands for local currency to be in circulation. It also would improve the images of both educational sectors by being able to produce a graduate that able to be absorp into the real-world working environment, and improving our images tremendously in global outlook as a nation that capable to drive its most valuable assets, its own citizen, to be in competitive edges around the job market sector.
The potential for such trickled-down factors of improvement keeps on going if such welfare is being leveraged by our government and politician to drive it forward. I'm sure of it.
Such comprehensive re-train and retraining programme are always exist in large prison-industrial complex around the western world, with either federal-sponsored or in conjunction within the industrial players itself. When equipped with skills needed to enter a job market, the offenders are on the lower side of being a repeated felony. And, dont forget, the desperation out of unemployment around the youth, are also a key factor of criminals to happen. We surely wouldnt want a criminal-rampant society dominated by a former universities or colleges graduate to filling-up the national criminal index around the country.
Those unemployed, so-called "incompetent" graduate, are more than just an assets to this country. Their are the backbone that would drive the future of nations. And there is plenty more of them that eagerly waited to strive and to serve for any chances to be given upon them. They would doing their best, just like the older generation that filled most of the job position or career path that should be bestow upon them, as the fundamental of the new industrial means are sided around them.
As more and more of them filled the unemployment statistics, what would be the future of our nation going to be, if it going to aspire the next-generation to build it into something better than what we currently deal with now? You wouldnt be inspired by the cases of unemployment youth that is well-educated to pilling up the statistic of being jobless from year to year.
Indirectly, those statistic might also affect our education institutional, which is also parts of a bigger economic mover for this country by employment sector and its impact on society. If anything that is considered to be part of how one society can collapse into a hopeful prospect to a downward spirral of endless brink of darkness, it would be the distrust and lack of enthusiasm toward educational insititutional.
To end this write-up, I am a proponent for such policies to be implemented by the government, to the extend of corporation and well-earning private companies. Because it would help, despite there is admittedly a shortcoming and a "false promise" behind it that is yet to be settled. It still better than nothing, and to let the potential future workforces that has been ours for so long to just sit and rotten within despair and loss of trust in the higher administration of this country, the educational system that put them into such condition at first places shouldn't be looked lightly.
P/S: The views expressed here are solely the writer’s own. Differ in opinions might happen from one individual to one another.
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