Why are full-time employed poly graduates dropping like flies?
According to the Ministry of Manpower’s Yearbook of Manpower Statistics 2015 – the proportion of economically active polytechnic fresh graduates declined by 3.8 per cent from 93 per cent in 2007 to 89.2 per cent in 2014. Full-time employed poly graduates dropped 16%? Full-time permanently employed polytechnic fresh...
The AEC’s agreement on free flow of skilled labour needs careful attention
A momentous thing just happened – but perhaps few have paid any attention to it. After almost 10 years of negotiation, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was finally brought into existence on Thursday. The agreement to establishment the trade pact was signed by member countries in 2007 at the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore. ASEAN...
3 indicators of graduates’ under-employment?
I refer to the article “More data needed on under-employed graduates: Industry observers” (Channel NewsAsia, Dec 26). It states that “Those Channel NewsAsia spoke with pointed to anecdotal evidence of such cases, and raised concerns over a potential trend, if not watched closely. GRADUATE UNDER-EMPLOYMENT NOT AT CRITICAL...
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