Sentences with phrase «graduate unemployment»

This follows widely - held perception that majority of university graduates are not trained to suit the job market; leading to rising levels of graduate unemployment in the country.

He noted that he is worried over the number of graduates sitting at home with no jobs, hence his government's intervention to curb the menace of graduate unemployment in the country.

And it's a little bit troubling that African efforts to increase the number of college graduates have often led to extremely high graduate unemployment rates.

New research has revealed that the largest drop in graduate unemployment for 15 years took place over the past year.

The new employment module is to tackle graduate unemployment in Ghana.

This, he said, would ensure that students make informed career choices in their academic progression to drastically reduce graduate unemployment and despondency among the youth.

Nana Konadu said she will enter into a two year agreement with industries in an attempt to end graduate unemployment.

«We are embarking on a new programme that the President is going to launch on May Day, and it is targeted at graduate unemployment.

The Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) programme is a government initiative to address graduate unemployment to solve social problems.

«In the peculiar case of Ghana, I saw the percentages of graduate unemployment reach an astronomical level to the extent that an association of unemployed graduates had to be formed to articulate these concerns... and that clearly mirrors what exactly was going on in the country.

Reacting to the issue on Yen Nsempa on Tuesday, Rev Ntim Fordjour said even though graduate unemployment is a worry to the nation, graduates would need to gather some work experience before securing jobs.

Compared to a year earlier, the employment rate increased from 73.6 % to 75.6 %, and unemployment declined from 8.5 % to 7.3 %, «marking the biggest drop in early graduate unemployment in 15 years,» the two organizations stated jointly.

Commenting on today's figures, leading graduate internship provider, Inspiring Interns called on the Government to give more priority to graduate unemployment including by reviewing the controversial Work Experience Programme to ensure that high quality placements are available to graduates.

«Competition for jobs is intense and graduate unemployment remains high, so students need to proactively develop relevant employability skills.

To help inspire you, here are five great ways to beat graduate unemployment:

Careers services are made scapegoats for rising graduate unemployment, when blame should lie squarely on the state of the economy.

A robust graduate jobs market combined with a sharp rise in students taking postgraduate courses has led to the lowest graduate unemployment rate since 1989, reveals the latest What do graduates do?

A major programme designed to tackle graduate unemployment in Ghana is set to be launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa...

We heard the current President on why we are graduate unemployment rate continue to increase, his change of position on galamsey mining in the country, the senior minister's statement that the fundamentals of the economy is strong, praises showered on the former communication minister and his team by the current communication minister, attempts to touch the heritage fund.

This, he said, would ensure that students make informed career choices in their academic progression to drastically reduce graduate unemployment and despondency among...

The NPP flagbearer also announced an «enhanced employment Tax Credit Scheme» to provide incentives for companies which employ fresh graduates, to help curb the rising levels of graduate unemployment in the country.

The Youth bulge and high levels of youth unemployment especially, graduate unemployment in the region was observed by participants as one of the causes of the increased youth group formations, which are recruiting grounds for party vigilantes.

The government believes the NBC programme will see a turn for the better as Mr. Ofori Atta said this step «will be a major government initiative to address livelihood empowerment and graduate unemployment to solve economic and social problems.»

The lecture, which had been organized by the Economics Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), had been on the topic «Graduate Unemployment.»

The NaBCo programme which is aimed at addressing livelihood empowerment and graduate unemployment is expected to hire some 100,000 graduates.

Graduate unemployment has reached crisis proportions with a reported 60 % of graduates unable to find a job three years after graduation.

He continued: «To tackle graduate unemployment, we have set up the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), and this year, we will engage 100,000 of our youth and help equip them with useful skills and experience».

«This is a major step to solving the graduate unemployment in Ghana.

«We did promise that we will set up a Nation Builders Corps and Nana Addo has said that we want to move this Graduate unemployment to deal with it and one of the ways we are going to deal with it is to set up the Nation Builders Corps which will provide modules teaching for nursing, revenue collection, agriculture, governance,» he said.

Former President Kufuor said in view of the high rate of youth and graduate unemployment, it was an opportune time for the youth to avail themselves of the opportunity and make a headway in life.

UKSA Cadetship Manager, Emma Baggett, explains: «With expensive tuition fees and graduate unemployment rates, vocational training has definitely become the new university — and ours is particularly in demand because of these bursaries on offer.

At the other end of the scale, based on figures for 2014, Greece and Spain have the highest rates of graduate unemployment.

Another positive is that graduate unemployment is down to 5.7 % - a level associated with non-recessionary labour markets.