Mosti aims to create 5,000 jobs next year

SEREMBAN: The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (Mosti) is targeting 5,000 job opportunities through the implementation of various programmes and initiatives next year, said its minister, Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba. He said a total of 4,145 individuals in deep technology and related fields had obtained jobs through similar initiatives carried out in January until […]

Fewer bumiputera grads hired by private sector

KUALA LUMPUR: Only about 73,400 Bumiputera graduates (or 27 percent) were hired by the private sector in 2020 compared to 103,900 (40 percent) in 2019. A study by the Bumiputera Agenda Steering Unit (Teraju) attributed the decline to a 29.3 percent drop in job opportunities over two years. “Looking at it carefully, it is due […]

Graduates urged to be more dynamic

KUCHING: University graduates are urged to be more courageous in taking up job or business opportunities so that they are not left behind. University Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities senior lecturer Dr Siti Zanariah Ahmad Ishak said students and graduates alike cannot be lumped as a homogenous group as there are […]

Let us not politicise education

The political parties don’t fight over whether education is important. They know it is. — Bill Harris, entrepreneur Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal’s lamentation on the lack of job opportunities for graduates is not something new. The growing number of unemployed graduates or graduates having to apply for jobs meant for SPM school leavers is an […]

Mining sector needs to create jobs

KUCHING: Sarawak has great potential to prosper and achieve equitable and inclusive development, but there is an urgent need to diversify the state’s economic and export structures. Assoc Prof Dr Fumitaka Furuoka from the Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya, said Sarawak’s heavy dependency on oil and gas (O&G) exports may have resulted in three key problems […]

Country capable of generating 500,000 new jobs

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) is confident that the country will be able to achieve the target of generating 500,000 new jobs this year despite recording a high unemployment rate of more than four percent. MEF executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan said the government had announced that under the National Employment Council initiative, more than […]

UiTM to hold online career programme May 24-25

KUCHING: Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sarawak campus in Kota Samarahan has been chosen by Higher Education Ministry (MoHE) to be the main organiser for the MyCareer @ MoHE Borneo Zone (Sarawak) programme from May 24 until May 25. The programme will be conducted online in view of the Covid-19 pandemic which is still a major […]

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