Ministry to scour villages for grads
Teams of volunteers will be dispatched to villages across the country this month to find new graduates with bachelor's degrees who are still without jobs and register them for future employment, Labour Ministry permanent secretary Somkiat Chayasriwong sa
The move is in response to the large number of graduates still without jobs, who account for 34,724 of the 318,596 students who completed undergraduate studies last school semester, Somkiat said. The registration details will then be sent to three key bodies regulating the industrial, tourism and business sectors to seek job opportunities for them.
The ministry’s Department of Employment will also assist those bodies in seeking jobs, and will hold a meeting of its provincial offices across the country to discuss action plans for the survey and registration, he added.
According to the department’s database of graduates completing their studies last semester, 83,563 students at ninth grade level are employed out of all 867,737 graduates. The figures are 20,575/400,296 at 12th grade; 52,452/220,017 at primary vocational level; and 80,740/166,750 at secondary vocational level. The total numbers at all levels are 521,199 from 1,973,396.
