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Dear Editor,
As a proud citizen of this beautiful twin island state, I felt extrememly elated to hear about the plans that the Education minister & his ministry has in the pipe line, concerning the merging of our tertiary level institutions.
Placing these institutions under one umbrella is definitely the right step going forward in the right direction. Of course, I must tip my hat to the education minister.
Now on the flip side, I am bit perplexed as to why the Gov’t is making tertiary level education a priority on their agenda but not simultaneously focusing on making jobs available for the young people who are graduants from these illustrious institutions and beyond.
It is my view, that the two should go hand in hand.
When students graduate, the public, statutory & even the private sector should have as a priority, their arms wide open to welcome these students after they are through with their studies.
Many persons in the public sector are now aged and at the same time, they are not synced with the new technology and hence, not making that meaningful contribution to the public’s operation.
With these youngsters coming on board, they will no doubt bring new energy and new concepts to the employment table.
Too many times there have been articles on various news portals about the plea of young graduants, trying to seek gainingful employment.
Our prime minister along with his two eldest active statesmen in cabinet, needs to carryout an audit or introspection of how & who is employed within the public sector.
They need to think outside of the box and finds means and ways to get our young people fulltime into the employment sector.
It was pleasing to hear the health minister sharing his sentiments about the young nurses and their future of fitting into the health care system even as nurse assistants until they become fully qualified registered nurses.
However, nothing was mentioned about the young doctors who have graduated from various esteem institutions with their medical degrees but are facing challenges to be absorbed into the health care system as junior doctors or assistants etc and so, they are left in the cold to fend for themselves.
Charity always begin at home. Our young human resources need to be better taken care of. It is only way of building an Economic Powerhouse .
Alex
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Ah true! Can’t be training up all these young people and den dem haffi go overseas fi work.
Dem always say go school, get education — but when yuh done, job nah dey!
Wha me go study hard fa if mi haffi end up pon somebody construction site same way?
Mi proud ah how much young people dey a UWI now, but wa de future hold fa dem?
Mi son graduate 2 year now and still nah get no proper wuk. Dis na right.
Great letter. Someone finally said what many parents and young people been feeling for years.
The Bottleneck Syndrome could become devastating mentally for many of those who are gathering these degree(s). Degrees only open the door to the Concrete Jungle Systems embedded in the Matrices of Life. Many could also become #Mice_In_A_Maze.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
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Vere C. Edwards
Two problems. First is that a good percentage of young people are doing degrees in areas that make no sense. Our government needs to identify the areas in which skills are needed and priortise scholarships in those areas. Many occupations and jobs will be replaced by AI in the near future.
Secondly, we have a relatively small private sector, many family owned with their children and grandchildren earmarked for the top jobs, so here again when you decide on a carreer, where are the opportunities? In fact with AI going to take over I wonder if University education makes sense. There are people with Masters Degrees in the USA, Canada and the UK who can’t find jobs.