VietNamNet Bridge - The high rate of unemployed university graduates has been blamed on inadequate training. 


Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on February 29 released a document answering a question from Nguyen Thi Hai, a National Assembly’s Deputy on solutions to ease the number of unemployed workers with bachelor’s degrees.

Hai, when raising the question, cited a report which said by the second quarter of 2015, Vietnam had 387,000 workers finishing intermediate schools (2-year training), junior colleges (3-year training) and universities (4-6 year training) who were unemployed. 

Hai stressed that this was her second inquiry on the same issue. She asked the Prime Minister about this at the beginning of the 13th National Assembly term, but the problem has not been settled.

The high rate of unemployed university graduates has been blamed on inadequate training.

After the Tet holiday, businesses have been hurriedly looking for workers. Labor experts predicted the demand for workers would be increasing this year as the economy has warmed up. 

However, it is still difficult for university graduates to find jobs.

Bizlive reported that 32 businesses attended the first transaction session at the Hanoi Job Center, planning to recruit 676 workers. 

However, they only planned to recruit four workers with higher education, or one percent of the total workers they needed.

Meanwhile, businesses wanted 265 unskilled workers, or 39.2 percent.

Vu Thi Thanh Lieu, deputy director of the Hanoi Job Center, noted that businesses need workers because of the short supply. 

Untrained laborers would rather run small business themselves or provide transport and other kinds of services, than work at factories.

The labor market bulletin released by the Ministry of Labor, Ward Invalids and Social Affairs in late January showed that 1.1 million workers had been unemployed, while the unemployed workers with higher education level accounts for the highest proportion.

VOV has cited another report as saying that six out of every 10 businesses were unsatisfied about the quality of junior college and university graduates.

The report pointed out that six out of every 10 graduates lack necessary working skills, while four out of every 10 graduates lack professional knowledge.

The poor training at some schools is believed to be the major reason behind the high rate of unemployed university graduates. 

Therefore, many educators have applauded the Ministry of Education and Training’s Circular 32 which stipulates that every junior college and university must have no more than 15,000 full-time students, even though the restriction is expected to cause some problems.

Tuoi Tre has estimated that the limitation in university training scale would lead to the layoff half of current university lecturers. 

By 2014, Vietnam had had 70,000 lecturers working at 412 junior colleges and universities, and about 2 million students.


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