Dig a little deeper, though, and there’s more reason for concern than the top-line headlines may indicate. The report on polytechnic graduates showed that “among the economically active fresh graduates, 68.5 per cent were in full-time permanent employment” so over 30 per cent had only a contract job or none at all. Full story
OPINION: Beware contracting out our young graduates’ futures — Richard Hartung
The Malaysian Insider, 29 Mar 2011
A more recent survey by the five polytechnics showed that “more than 90 per cent of polytechnic graduates were in the workforce as at Oct 1, 2010”. And the Ministry of Manpower’s Report on Labour Force in Singapore, 2010, released in January, showed that the percentage of contract workers dropped from 12.7 per cent in 2009 to 11.5 per cent in 2010.
Dig a little deeper, though, and there’s more reason for concern than the top-line headlines may indicate. The report on polytechnic graduates showed that “among the economically active fresh graduates, 68.5 per cent were in full-time permanent employment” so over 30 per cent had only a contract job or none at all. Full story
Dig a little deeper, though, and there’s more reason for concern than the top-line headlines may indicate. The report on polytechnic graduates showed that “among the economically active fresh graduates, 68.5 per cent were in full-time permanent employment” so over 30 per cent had only a contract job or none at all. Full story
