discussed earlier.. at link and also at de-funk.blogspot.com


Why does it seem shocking to anybody that our (120k) fresh graduates are unemployed? People are offering far to many excuses from needing a long 'break', to the market saturated, not enough jobs, etc. At the end of the day i got only to ask
do our fresh graduates or students in colleges/uni show self intiative and are really working hard to prepare for the market?

Thats like asking can our MPs stop implementing and saying stupid things.

This post has been edited by nada-: Jul 5 2006, 12:06 PM

Graduates have no self intiative (researching on the local market and companies and being able to learn new things and multi-task as well as taking critique in a positive and construction manner than a negative one)

They have no self realisation (like havenzhiv has said so many students wield their degrees and diplomas like a golden ticket and think automatically they are to earn a certain $$$ amount. how many students you know are working partime jobs? Or know their own capabilty? How many are even honest with themselves about this?)
and are unable to self educate.

Problem is also the mindset that has been drilled that 'academics' and 'grades' are everything. All educational institutions in the world have a certain academic criteria that they uphold and follow. But it has been said that the education/ educational system in Asia focuses deeply in academics and technicality more.
This can be shown clearly in the Malaysian paper (The Star), students are always getting remarkable results and constantly show the achievements academically in the paper, yet Malaysia has a problem of over 120,000 unemployed graduates shown in statistics and one third of them (30,000 graduates) are design students.
In many government schools in Asia especially the South-East Asia region, they focus mostly in academics and technicality where many of these educational institutions do not encourage to ask questions or to promote discussions and critical thinking within classes.

Yes there is problems with our educational institutions and there always will be. The students need to make a stand and also learn how to improve the quality of education. Too many graduates and students in colleges are expected to be spoon-fed by information cuz one paid for the tuition fees?

I'm so tired of students moaning and groaning about no jobs or the its so hard to get jobs when I can clearly see so many reasons why they cant get one. Stop blaming others and take some damn responsiblity.

*sorry double post

This post has been edited by nada-: Jul 5 2006, 03:52 PM