Thursday July 6, 2006
Fong: Jobless ICT grads took outdated courses
PUTRAJAYA: The majority of the 20,217 registered unemployed graduates in the country are those who took Information Communications Technology (ICT) courses in local institutions of higher learning.
They are jobless because what they had learnt has become obsolete.
Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn said the courses they studied were not the latest because the institutions had not kept up with changing technology and job market requirements.
Stating that such graduates had to upgrade themselves to meet current demands, he added that the Government was also having dialogues with various institutions including the Higher Education Ministry to solve the problem of outdated syllabus.
It is learnt that 67% of the jobless graduates studied in public universities and 33% at private institutions.
Dr Fong said that many potential employers dealing with ICT had called the Human Resources Ministry, seeking graduates who took certified professional software development courses under the ministry’s Graduate Retraining Scheme.
The scheme offered ICT courses that were in accordance with what ICT-based companies wanted, he added.
“The demand is very good. These companies want people in the hundreds at any one time,” he told reporters after a post-Cabinet meeting at his ministry here yesterday.
Dr Fong also said that many graduates did not know how to get information on job vacancies advertised in the ministry’s electronic labour exchange.
He said the electronic kiosks would now be placed at places frequented by youths such as shopping complexes.
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