New Study Blames Increased Unemployment Rates on Lack of Proper Planning and Poor Quality of University Outputs
According to a recent study, the increased rates of unemployment among youth generations in Yemen can be blamed on the weak curricula and the poor quality of education, including both school and university education.
The study prepared and implemented by the Yemeni Center for Social Studies and Market Research pointed out that high rates of unemployment is blamed on the weak university outputs, lack of coordination between the universities and the private sector, lack of interest in scientific research and the poor quality of university equipments, libraries and labs.
The study, conducted in four government universities and three private universities, also blamed the changing culture which gives more respect to rich people, irrespective of the source of their money, and gives no respect for education and educated people.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Olufi hinted that the universities as well as the society paid dearly for the state’s policy which adopted expansion of university education with no premeditated and scientific planning especially when the minimum level of human and material capacities.
According to him, there are several reasons behind the scientific underachievement and the rampage of corruption in universities and stressed that more attention is given to the quantity rather than quality especially when we have universities and education colleges in many governorates.
This was also criticized by several education specialists who assure that there must be few high quality universities instead of having too many universities with less or no quality at all.
Specialists call on the government to give up any news plans for having more universities, stressing that money that goes to the new universities can be utilized in equipping and furnishing the existing universities.
Unemployment and education
Al-Olufi further noted that partial and mask unemployment which hit high figures among university graduates particularly when university outputs do not meet the conditions of labor markets.
Criticizing the lack of scientific research, he added that there is no relation between education institutions and the private sector that is supposed to have more intakes for the official sector can just provide jobs for 16,000 while the existing universities graduate over a hundred thousand a year.
He also hinted to the lack of plans by the state authorities and called for giving more attention to scientific and vocational and technical education because they are capable to absorb the increasing number of unemployed graduates. There is also no relations linking the scientific research to the societal needs.
With more development projects and programs relying on world specialized companies, Yemeni universities are not given the chance to contribute to the state building process.
The study prepared and implemented by the Yemeni Center for Social Studies and Market Research pointed out that high rates of unemployment is blamed on the weak university outputs, lack of coordination between the universities and the private sector, lack of interest in scientific research and the poor quality of university equipments, libraries and labs.
The study, conducted in four government universities and three private universities, also blamed the changing culture which gives more respect to rich people, irrespective of the source of their money, and gives no respect for education and educated people.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Olufi hinted that the universities as well as the society paid dearly for the state’s policy which adopted expansion of university education with no premeditated and scientific planning especially when the minimum level of human and material capacities.
According to him, there are several reasons behind the scientific underachievement and the rampage of corruption in universities and stressed that more attention is given to the quantity rather than quality especially when we have universities and education colleges in many governorates.
This was also criticized by several education specialists who assure that there must be few high quality universities instead of having too many universities with less or no quality at all.
Specialists call on the government to give up any news plans for having more universities, stressing that money that goes to the new universities can be utilized in equipping and furnishing the existing universities.
Unemployment and education
Al-Olufi further noted that partial and mask unemployment which hit high figures among university graduates particularly when university outputs do not meet the conditions of labor markets.
Criticizing the lack of scientific research, he added that there is no relation between education institutions and the private sector that is supposed to have more intakes for the official sector can just provide jobs for 16,000 while the existing universities graduate over a hundred thousand a year.
He also hinted to the lack of plans by the state authorities and called for giving more attention to scientific and vocational and technical education because they are capable to absorb the increasing number of unemployed graduates. There is also no relations linking the scientific research to the societal needs.
With more development projects and programs relying on world specialized companies, Yemeni universities are not given the chance to contribute to the state building process.
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