In My Mind

UnemployABLE Malaysian Graduates

In the New Sunday Times date March 20, 2005 Abdul Razak Ahmad wrote about unemployable Malaysian graduates. In his article, at last we start to recognize the problem is more on the quality of the graduates produced. "Soft-skills" such as ability to communicate effectively, and analyze and solve problems efficiently has been pinpointed as the culprit of the unemployable graduates.

We in the private sector knew this long time ago. We have been shouting about the quality of the graduates for the last many years.

Producing straight-A's students at SPM level is not enough. Let us take the latest SPM's Best Student performance who achieved 17A1's. At least 3 subjects were redundant for example Tasawur Islam is actually part of Islamic Studies, English for Science & Technology is part of English subject, and Basic Science is already covered under Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Are we a nation which only loves for big numbers regardless of quality?

posted by InMine @ 11:40 AM