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More and more graduates are facing unemployment in Malaysia

Southeast Asia Education News    

The unemployment situation among graduates has grown from a matter of gnawing concern to an issue that leaves furrows in the brows of education planners.

Our 21 public-sector universities and 38 private-sector universities produce something like 51,000 graduates a year, but nearly 60% remain unemployed one year after graduation, according to a study in 2018 conducted by the Ministry of Education Malaysia’s Graduate Tracer Study.

New Strait Times