Comments on: Unemployed graduates and unemployed non-graduates

By: E manamperi

E manamperi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:56:25 +0000

There is no any equal opportunity when offering government jobs.as example the government made a list of 300 student and they issued result for only that group for Audit examiners exam . other who have sit for the exam they have right know there result. this is done when they recruiting graduate for CTB. why we can not get together and ask the trasparancy for the these exam.

By: Dhammika karunanayake

Dhammika karunanayake — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:06:49 +0000

Unemployments of graduates is a problem that we are facing again & again.If we want to solve this problem we should perform our under graduates under degree program what suitable to the job market.According to my point of view still our university system is not ready for it,but Uva Wellassa University is going to achive that target from their well set degree programs.I think other universities should fallow that system.

By: Lanka Truth

Lanka Truth — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:36:59 +0000

From http://www.lankatruth.com

Graduate employees to take trade union action

(13th June 2007 – 17:10 S.L.T)

Graduate employees have decided resort to trade union action as the government has not make any intervention whatsoever to solve problems in their profession.

They were able to secure permanent employment after they had agitated for more than 10 years as unemployed graduates. But the jobs they have been given do not have any standard and in very institution in the government service they have had to do duties of the labourer to the head and they are subjected to various pressures.

A huge protest campaign will be held in front of the ministry of public administration at 12.00 PM on 14th June against the unfair manner treated to the graduate employees with the knowledge of the government.

By: Coordinator

Coordinator — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:07:29 +0000

The ratio of Unemployed graduates : all other unemployed is about 1:30 (Sunil Chandrasiri, IRQUE report, Feb 2006, based on QLFS data)

Shilpi asks why this fuss about a small minority.

It is because it makes imminent political sense. To the uninitiated, graduates represent the cream of the cream, and for the government it is a matter of numbers. Give 20,000 or so jobs and make the masses feel like the government cares or do the harder work of selling the tough road that needs to be traveled to create economic growth and jobs.

Politicians are opportunistic creatures but our current leader Rajapakse would beat anybody living or dead for opportunism. No chance that he or his government is going to tell the truth unless…… unless the electorate speaks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:54:26 +0000

There will be a protest by so called *under employed* graduates in front of the Ministry of Public Administration tomorrow. In addition to higher salaries they ask for few other things like proper designations. (whatever that means)

If the government thought the issue would be over by giving them jobs, they are yet to learn.

By: Sasani

Sasani — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:40:58 +0000

I think the biggest problem with these “job demanders” are their attitude. Once they are through with the formal education they expect someone to present them with a good job on a silver platter.
If they just open their eyes and look around them, they could find thousand and one possibilities of doing something and making a good living. For example someone very close to me, a housewife, is making huge profits (and I mean huge!) growing and selling plants in her own backyard and now she’s expanding her business to landscaping.

But of course there is the notion of a ‘good job’ or white collar job in our society. This prevents people from doing many things, which are needed to be done by someone. I think this is very detrimental to our people! This again is an attitude problem.

And you maybe right in saying that non-graduates should be given priority, not just because of their numbers but also because they can be trained in different skills to work in something other than the govt sector. If we can provide them with the proper guidance and help to start up their own business rather than trying to absorb them into an already saturated government ministry, it would be better for everyone.