$100mil to train jobless graduates

$100mil for Jobless Grad


First, we created them to be unemployable and then, we spent money to, hopefully, help them to become employable.

This is the reality! When the government decides to reduce the use of English as the communication language in schools and universities. It was then foreseeable that we would one day produce graduates who would not be competent to communicate in English, as almost all the subjects taught in schools and universities are converted to Bahasa Malaysia.

Only those scholars who were sent overseas, particularly to Western universities were lucky as they would have spent 3 to 5 years there communicating in English language.

According to Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn, 200 training centres had been set up nationwide to provide training for 15,000 unemployed graduates. The courses are designed to equip them with communication skills and knowledge about marketing and management. The training would focus on English communication skills to enable the graduates to speak and write confidently in the language.

Each trainee would be paid a monthly allowance of RM350 for the courses, which will vary between four and six months. To qualify, the graduates should register with Labour Departments in their respective States within the next two weeks.

Each year, hundreds of millions were allocated to make good the defects of the educational system. This money would have been better spent if it were to be used to make some new bridges or repair some old bridges such as the dilapidated bridge in Nabawan, Sabah, where children of Kampung Labang, have to cross the 80m-wide Sungai Sapulut on a rickety suspension bridge that is nothing more than a few cables strung across the waterway to go to SK Labang, and some of the old dilapidated bridges in Kelantan which had caused the death of some school children and Kampung folks.