[Youth unemployment] main cause is that education systems are not providing young people with
appropriate skills and this starts at the most basic level. Our 2012 report shows that there are 200m young people who weren’t even completing primary school. Our current report states that 175m young people can’t even read a single sentence, of those 61% are women. If you have that number of young people without these basic literacy skills they will struggle to find a job that will provide a decent lifestyle.
On top of that, transferable skills that employers are looking for, such as teamwork and communication, are not being taught. This is partly because you have the ministry of labour dealing with the labour force, and ministry of education dealing with education, and the two of them often don’t speak to each other. If we are to overcome the unemployment crisis – which is partly being fueled by a learning crisis – we need to bring those two together.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at ‘Youth unemployment is being fuelled by an education crisis’ | Global Development Professionals Network | Guardian Professional.
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