Issues in Education

What is the quality of education that would produce intellectual manpower? Why in our country is there unemployment graduates? The main issue falls under the education, consists of the increase in the numbers of students in tutorial room and the increase in the teaching burden on faculty members. This means that the universities increase the quantitative dimension of graduates and this do not contribute to the improvement of the quality of graduates so they can't get easily into the labour market. So, it will increase in unemployment in general especially among graduates as a result of the increase in the student explosion phenomenon. The important point that we should know, the jobs could not be produced as fast as university graduates were produced. Besides, most of our lecturers do not upgrade their module and sometimes our lecturer still using their module more than two or three years. What I’m worried now, sometimes the module and the process of teaching still in ‘bahasa Melayu’. How our graduates can enter the job market especially in the private sector if our graduates are not well speaking in English. But we don’t just blame university hundred percen if the rate of unemployment is still increase because graduates should equipping oneself with the knowledge and skills needed for work especially in the private sector and do not only depend on the Government sector.

Quality of education will be the key to long-term benefits for our country. The ability to produce manpower that have certain criteria such as creative, analytical and great thinking skills depends greatly on the way education is structured. Nowadays, our local graduates are very difficult to enter the private market and this can be proven if we look in the private sector, shows that there are more overseas graduates than local graduates. There are many factors have been contributed to this problem such as lack of language and communication skills, experience, and creative and critical-thinking skills and versatility of graduates slowly must have be improving. Frankly, our local graduates are not fluent in English and do not know how to communicate effectively. Important as they lack confidence to face future challenges in the world of work. Most of students are very good in taking note and following lecturer’s instructions. They just memorize their lecture note. They can not to think critically, creatively and to manage the information. This is probably true when we look how student answer the question during the examination.

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