College graduates: how they are affected by unemployment and underemployment problems
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1987-03
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The connection between education and employment is not simple nor is it positively constant over time. Any analysis on the relationship between the country's higher education and employment should consider that in Asia, the Philippines has the largest enrolment ratios in the elementary, secondary and tertiary levels. The universalization o£ the elementary education has automatically led to a very high enrolment ratio at the secondary level. Furthermore, because of the lack of employment opportunities after the secondary education, high school graduates have nowhere to go but to higher educational institutions. This pressures colleges and universities to expand programs which are cheap to carry out, oftentimes without considering the need for skills to be achieved through these programs to prepare students for work. In the long-run, serious problems arise from the unmet expectations of the college graduates.
Thus, the Philippine educated manpower is not without work problems. Considering the painstaking preparation to produce professionals, it has been repeatedly cited that in the Philippines, as in other developing countries, a mismatch occurs between the academe and the world of work. Both from the points of view of the family as a unit and the government, the problem is not simple for in addition to employment, the related problem of underemployment also exists.
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College graduates, Unemployment, Underemployment, Labor market, Economic conditions