Youth unemployment at 38%
Posted on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 12:24 in Headline News
(CNS): While the country’s overall unemployment rate is currently estimated to be around 6%, for young people aged between 18 and 24 the rate is now at 38%, the minister with responsibility for labour said this morning. Speaking at the opening of the Chamber's Careers Expo, Rolston Anglin said that these were challenging times for everyone but particularly so for Cayman’s young people. As a result, he said, the first new initiatives in the ministry would focus on youth unemployment and helping young people gain the soft skills which he said were deeply lacking but were essential to securing a job.
“It is not surprising during a recession that we would see a spike in youngsters being unemployed and we recognise that this is the time to focus on young people,” Anglin, the Minister for Education, Labour and Training, said as he explained that the ministry would be rolling out the first phase of the ‘National Employment Passport’ initiative, which would be focusing heavily on youth training.
He noted that Cayman’s unemployment rate among young people was similar to that in the CARICOM region. Anglin also acknowledged that during times of severe unemployment, governments everywhere had a tendency to come up with plans and programmes in an attempt to keep people in work. However, he said that tackling unemployment was not about systems and programmes but about employability. Engaging in feel-good initiatives that leave people no more employable at the end than at the beginning are pointless, he observed, and said he was keen to ensure that the young people in Cayman gained the skills they needed to make them employable through proper training.
Speaking in broader terms about dealing with the employment challenges facing the jurisdiction, the minister said that the Labour Department had to integrate its information with the business community. He spoke of a real need for his ministry to understand the needs of the labour market and that without a more integrated system between the needs of the private sector and government programmes we would not solve Cayman’s employment challenges.
Given the economic situation, it was not the best time to be in government, Anglin told the audience at the short opening ceremony, and it certainly was not the best time to be the minister responsible for labour, but, he added, it was the responsibility he had asked for and wanted because he believed the challenges could be met. He emphasised the need to keep employment and education together in the same ministry as the training needs of the workforce had to be integrated with the recruitment needs of the business community.
“Until we have a truly integrated system that works for both our citizens and business we won’t be successful,” he said, adding that the system needed to be transparent to the business community. Anglin explained the private sector needed to know who was available for work and the DER needed to know what skills employers wanted. “As we execute the reforms to the DER we need to know what business wants,” he said.
The Chamber of Commerce Careers, Education, Training & Jobs Expo opened at the Family Life Centre in George Town on Friday morning and will be open until Saturday evening. Around a dozen employers, as well as a number of government departments, industry associations and both the UCCI and the ICCI were promoting their industries, training and scholarships along with career opportunities. Although the expo is open to anyone interested in finding work or changing careers, students from Grand Cayman who will be leaving school this year were given the first opportunity to meet with exhibitors this morning as the expo opened its doors at 10:00 am.
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The comment from Rita Myles
The comment from Rita Myles "I say to solve this problem is to get rid of some of these expats and give our young Caymanian out of work men jobs!" is part of the problem here. That kind of attitude reeks of superiority and is the reason you don't see Caymanians flipping burgers.
I have worked in all parts of the world and Caymanians are some of the laziest workers I have ever seen. The amount of sick leave taken is atrocious and the general attitude to work is one of contempt. I don't blame the employers of this country for attracting expats as generally speaking they are far more reliable, hard working employees.
The fact is that all employers have to prove before hiring an expat that there isn't a suitably qualifed Caymanian. In the case of the car washers you don't have to be Einstein to work out that Caymanians simply aren't applying.
"I have worked in all parts
"I have worked in all parts of the world and Caymanians are some of the laziest workers I have ever seen".
These sorts of insulting generalizations really not help the expat/Caymanian divide but serve only to create animosity. Have you considered that there might be agreement if you did not come across as an obnoxious, contemptuous expat?
"The fact is that all employers have to prove before hiring an expat that there isn't a suitably qualifed Caymanian".
That is the legal requirement, but we all know that this is breached more often than observed. There are employers who routinely abuse the system from 'losing' a qualified Caymanian's application, to tailoring the job descriptions to suit the expat incumbent who came on a six-month temporary permit which did not have to be advertised. In one particularly ridiculous case having advertised the position and interviewed a qualified Caymanian the prospective employer suddenly discovered that the ad really did not correctly state the experience required for the job (which the expat incumbent holds only due to their experience with that particular employer on a work permit) and needed to be re-advertised with the 'correct' requirements (so as to exclude the qualified Caymanian). Those are the facts. You could notify the Board but would you really want to fight to work for an employer who would be disgruntled that they had been forced to take you on? Of course the employer could also appeal and spin the matter out over couple years meanwhile the expat employee can continue to work and you either remain out of work or you move on. Those are the realities for many Caymanians in the workplace. Perhaps it is fostered by the prejudice that all Caymanians are lazy which you are keen to perpetuate.
I agree some Caymanians have
I agree some Caymanians have attitudes that reek of superiority and yes some might be even down right lazy and there is no excuse for this. However, let me remind you that they are in their own country. When our forefathers had to leave home as teenagers some as young as 13 years old to brave 20' and 30' seas where were you? looking for greener pastures I guess.
Some of these young men didn't even make it back to these shores in an attempt to make a better living and to enhance the quality of life for ALL Caymanians. This is the foundation that my the lazy Caymanians of that era built for us and not you and may I suggest if you don't like it here you know what to do?
Don't worry very soon lazy Caymanians will be doing the blue collars jobs and loving it as we once did because there is only about 20,000 of us and we won't starve or become homeless. Caymanians stayed and rebuilt this island after Interbank crash in the 70s and again after hurricane Ivan. So believe me we are prepared to stay and rebuild after the next crash , but rest assured that you and many like you won't be here to see it. Caymanians don't like to migrate and so you don't have to worry about us coming to your country to take over.
The Chamber of Commerce held
The Chamber of Commerce held their Career, Education, Training and Jobs Expo this past Friday and Saturday. 26 companies were represented and were taking applications. Free courses were given in resume writing, presenting yourself in a job interview and standing out in a tough job market.
Of the people who showed up, most were already employed people just checking out the Expo. If there were 100 young Caymanians present looking for jobs and interested in improving their skills, we did not see them. When asked why it seemed there was such a low turnout, one young person stated that "there was too much going on that day, didn't we all know there was a vollyball tournament going on?"
This speaks volumes.
Now that's a crying shame and
Now that's a crying shame and yet they wonder why? These young kids are doing alot of breakins,drugs and getting into serious trouble. The answer is there in front of your faces already? Man has got to eat and if a man cannot get a job to provide for his family what else do we expect him to do? I don't mean to sound too harsh but the truth is the truth. I say to solve this problem is to get rid of some of these expats and give our young Caymanian out of work men jobs!
There are plenty of jobs.
There are plenty of jobs. KFC, Burger King, Pool Cleaners, Yard Cutters, and Hotel workers. I dont see any of these bright young kids even applying for these jobs. WHY NOT
I have a company here and have hired many young locals more then not they just stop coming in don't call in sick just stop showing up. We had one kid working for us for 10 days picked up his check never came back again, but wait 2 weeks later he came in asking for his holiday pay.
The problem is they expect everything handed to them dont want to work they want fancy rims, stereos and stay out all night.
One more thing, how exactly
One more thing, how exactly is increasing the retirement age to 65 expected to help this problem? Just curious.
It will help with pension
It will help with pension obligations. So long as you continue to work you are contributing to pensions. Once you retire you are simply drawing on pensions and not contributing.
Thanks, understood. What will
Thanks, understood. What will be the end result with respect to youth unemployment though?
That's only looking at the
That's only looking at the issue from one side (kinda like the Miller/Shaw/Jefferson report...not suggesting any new revenue measures). Increasing the retirement age to 65 will also keep younger people from being able to get a job...as the job market can only absorb so many numbers of people.
If one looks at this objectively, one will most likey conclude that to keep most people in their 60's working (and usually drawing larger salaries, and often not in the best of health...while they would rather be retired) while also effectively keeping our younger generation NOT working (when they would rather be working, and are in the prime of their health) is NOT a good fiscal nor good social policy.
It is a short and one sided view.
I think there are two points
I think there are two points you are missing:
1. We need to reduce the size of the civil service. Over the longer term this can be achieved by attrition so that someone who retires may not necessarily be replaced by anyone even a young person. In that sense they are not being kept out of a job. The corollary of this is that those young person will have to seek jobs in the private sector. There are many jobs which are presently held by expats which Caymanians do not have for the simple reason that they feel it is beneath them. I think we are going to have to get to grips with the fact that there are going to be less jobs available.
2. This would only raise of the normal retirement age and would not prevent retirement on medical grounds if that was indicated. At some point there is a trade off between being in your prime and not having the substantial experience that is needed in some areas.
It will also clog up the
It will also clog up the system (so to speak). In that younger people will have to wait longer for a job to become available as older people will be holding their jobs longer (affecting all jobs in the chain)...while they wait to retire... or die (whichever comes first. Maybe that's part of the plan too...the closer one is to death, the less will have to be paid out for pension.
More $$$for the rich and powerful...less for the middle class and poor!
Ridiculous. There is no
Ridiculous. There is no legitimate unemployment problem in Cayman. Our many fastfood restaurants are filled with expats on work permits.
It does not require extensive experience or high intelligence to hold one of these jobs. Our young Caymanians can get "a job" if they want "a job". If they are unemployed it is because they choose to be.
Somebody needs to tell them that everyone has to start somewhere. Many very rich and successful people started out flipping burgers or worse.
Could not agree
Could not agree more.
The question is, are these young Caymanians willing to flip a burger, deliver a pizza, bus a table, wash a dish, sweep a floor, drive a nail or do any job that is not in a bank or law firmÉ
It seems that these kids or maybe the parents of these kids think that this type of work is beneath them.
What the youngsters need to know is that most of the CEO's and Millionaires of the world did not come from a priviledged background but worked their way from the bottom up.
Do yourself a favour Cayman. Get your hands dirty. It is not such a bad thing.
The question is,
The question is, are these young Caymanians willing to flip a burger, deliver a pizza, bus a table, wash a dish, sweep a floor, drive a nail or do any job that is not in a bank or law firmÉ
Another misinformed "Non Caymanian" who has been conditioned to believe absolute rubbish, with an agenda, but I won't blame you. Instead I will enlighten you.
The Cayman Islands have always had a population prior to the 1970s as most in the expat community seem not to believe or know. When you first arrived here did you not find Caymanians flipping burgers, doing deliveries, waiters/waitress, bussing tables, dishwashers, cleaners, carpenters, bankers and law firm employees? I hate to disappoint you but all this was done before you found us, by "Caymanians" and will continue long after you depart for greener pastures.
I will however, agree with you that the parents of these kids at one time had the mindset that these types of job are not what they should aspire to do as their parents made the necessary sacrifices for them to have greater expectations and what is so wrong with this? the world would still be in the stone age if each generation did not aspire to achieve more that the next. This dream is slowly being unrealized because of poor educational planning, lack of proper parenting and greed.
The Cayman Islands was always bless with a small population so like Bermuda, the BVI, Anguilla and the Bahamas the people of these islands should have been given free education from the cradle to the grave to ensure that they could take their rightful place in society and not have to become the blue collar works. However, the politicians of the day did not see this day coming and those that had the foresight to were called educated fools and relegated to the background while the expats used our young people of the 70's and 80s to elevated themselves to the boardroom and are now the movers and shakers of the financial industry.
Let me tell you what happened in the 70s and 80s because I was a young Caymanian of that era, we were seduced by those in the financial industry mainly the banks as at that time. It was not as easy as 1,2,3 for many in the financial industry as it is now to get work permits and key employees therefore they were too happly to recruite our young people from the tourism industry, high schools and anywhere they could find them to train, very few of our young people were encourged to pursue further education. In later years the present UCCI campus was setup as a technical training school but was changed by the government to again accommodate outsiders and not to benefit Caymanians. I rest my case because I could go on and on but this is a lesson in futility, all I will say to you and others get to know the history of Cayman and Caymanians before you judge us.
Hardly surprising when the
Hardly surprising when the only criteria for "graduation" is showing up to school 80% of the time.
I am a Caymanian who
I am a Caymanian who graduated from high school more than three decades ago. The mess that is our education system was not always that way.
We need programmes that modify the expectations of those looking for work so that they understand the requirements of the real world work place. We also need programmes that provide the literacy, numeracy and practical skills needed for employment.
There is no doubt that successive governments have failed to implement proper educational programmes both with respect to core "hard skills" like literacy and numeracy, as well as proper "soft skills" which are needed for in the job market. Politicians over the last 2 decades have "purchased" public approval by lowering educational standards and approving the "social promotion" lunacy which allowed people to leave school without the ability to read or write. Politicians also supported irresponsible parents who threatened to have teachers thrown off the Island for pointing out that "junior" was refusing to learn anything and was disrupting the class. Some politicians, including notables among our longest serving politicians, together with some parents are jointly responsible for teaching a significant part of an entire generation the lie that rude behaviour is acceptable in school and in the work place.
Rolston in my view is the only one in the current government that has the requisite intelligence and common sense to do what is required. I hope that he is able to persuade others in Cabinet who view education as irrelevant, that it is critical that we implement the needed reforms and remedial programmes which will tackle this very serious problem.
This is one of the best posts
This is one of the best posts I have read on CNS.
jobs such as bank tellers
jobs such as bank tellers that young Caymanians use to get as they come out of high school, are now filled by expats....UDP you all created a mess in this country with people, not even rich people that can contribute to the country, but poor people that rely on govt!!! what a mess!
Where do you bank? I bank at
Where do you bank? I bank at three different banks weekly, pretty much know most of the tellers and they are all Caymanian,, and always see lots of "trainees" also young Caymanians,, also which poor people relying on government are you referring to? Last time I checked there were no social services alloted to expats??
which bank is that???
which bank is that???
I'm worndering the same
I'm worndering the same thing! Too funny. I guess they don't "look Caymanian" so automatically they have to be expats. LOL
i don't care who says
i don't care who says different but the UDP antics with the status grants has/ and will continue this mess, they have made 3000 + Caymanians that does not include their children, who now attends public schools, who is now depending on GOVT for scholarships and jobs... Sherri/UDP invented "key employee" how about mandating businesses to have an entry level opening for every position they have, and mandate them to prove that they have trained a Caymanian before they issue a work permit for an expat? All UDP care about is rolling out the red carpet for expats... Big lil Mac you need to start investing in home first If you leave this country to him, he would make our population grow to 100,000.
on another note, Caymanians take your head out of the sky and go work for an honest dollar. Stack a supermarket shelf, work in a resturant waiting tables, no one should be too proud to do these sortof jobs, its an honest dollar
I agree with you, but our
I agree with you, but our young Caymanians are to proud to be doing those jobs you mention, which is a shame, because when I graduated 20 years ago I started at the bottom and work my way up, I actually started out working in a Supernarket and became a Supervisor there and kept getting better salary as the years went by, but these young Caymanians don't same to understand that not everybody started with a blue collar job, I sure did,nt and I make more today than I did some 20yrs ago. It is sad to see that they choose the road of violence and robbery than to work for an honest buck, even if they started at $4.50, it's a start in the right direction, atleasr they would not have anytime to have any problems with the law, instead they would be working to better their future, whatever may come.
Even working in a Hotel is an excellent start to think of it, because Tourism is important to Cayman and a lot of tourises would love to be serve by a local person, because I have hear that from tourises many times, saying (it is so nice to meet a local person). And all I could do is smile with pride of way they feel about locals. Those jobs you mention above is all a good start up, maybe not so great of salary scale, but it's a start for these young Caymanians and they need to stop thinking about blue collar jobs and get a start doing any one of those jobs you or me mention.
Math estimates the PPM gave
Math estimates the PPM gave out 2,800 residences who will become status holders.
Your second paragraph is very true. Office work permit renewals are being denied hand over fist. However, at the same time, anyone can get a NEW work permit for waitresses, fast food chains, gas station attendants etc. There should be NO new permits for unskilled jobs while there is so much unemployment. How difficult is this?
I keep telling you UDP
I keep telling you UDP cronies that you must all try & get your stories straight! One group of the UDP seem to say one thing & then another group says something else & then another group says the opposite & then..... you get my drift! They cannot get their stories straight! Anon 12:02 claims that the Residency Board under the PPM gave out 2,800 PR's, yet a previous posting claimed it was over 4000, then an earlier posting said the PPM gave out 1000 PR's! Can't you all get a simple figure right? If you were telling the truth then you all would have the correct figure!
The UDP must also accept that most of the mess concerning the granting of PR is because of the dreadful decision they made in 2003 by giving away over 3000 Cayman status! Thousands of people who have lived in Cayman for decades but were overlooked by the UDP in 2003 for people who had not even been to Cayman, or had been in Cayman for a very short time, have quite rightly applied for PR! The utter mess that immigration is now in is because of the UDP.
One difference between the
One difference between the UDP and PPM, on this website, is that the UDP don't collude. I'm neither UDP nor PPM. Since you know the simple figure, why don't you enlighten us? Of course, you won't because that would be an admission that the PPM ALSO gave out residency / status in the thousands and thus weaken one of the PPM major political pillars, i.e. that the UDP gave away the county. Just ONCE, why don't you put country before party and tell us how many residency / status the PPM gave away. Until then, the 4,000 one person quoted from ESO will suffice. (And just in case you didn't know, 4,000 is more than 3,000). Here is my prediction: Not only will you neither quote a figure. You will argue the UDP (through Cabinet) by-passed a process. Whereas, the PPM used the process implemented by the UDP. At the end of the day this assumes:
1) Most people who got it from the UDP were not deserving and the UDP is dishonest.
2) Most people who got it under the PPM were deserving and the PPM is honest. (Apparently not honest enough to come out and give the figure though.) POLITICS BEFORE COUNTRY.
First, there is absolutely no
First, there is absolutely no comparison to be made between a Board applying the law and granting residency in accordance with the law where everyone is considered on the same basis, and the debacle of the Cabinet making secret grants to 3000+ people without any background checks, level playing field or anything else that might resemble the rule of law. This was not a give-away. This is an obvious pathetic UDP attempt at spin. That is surely putting politics ahead of country.
If the legal process was applied then the objective is not to artificially restrict the numbers that outside of that process, so saying there were 1,000, 2,000 etc. etc. doesn't matter. Bear in mind that this is permanent residence not Caymanian status. This is the process that should have happened with the UDP and did not.
It is really disturbing when UDP supporters don't understand the difference between applying the rule and not applying the rule of law, between grants based on merit and those based on political favour, between what is legitimate and what is not legitimate. Apparently all you have to do is quote some arbitrary number and try to equate the two. Ethics is a foreign language to this lot.
If this is the quality of their supporters there is no wonder that the have suh poor quality leaders
No permits should be given
No permits should be given for these low paying jobs, BUT answer me, what is an employer to do, close his business down because the Caymanian school leavers or young adults do not want to work in these positions, but want office work only, arent we speaking from both sides of our mouth, help the owners get permits, employ people that refuse to accept the job. Oh my, what tangle webs we weave. Talk to the employer about their dilemma.
Lets take a real life
Lets take a real life example. The Ritz at one point was the second largest employer of Caymanians. Despite that fact, the burden is on the Ritz to train Caymaians until there are little to no expats working there. At any time Immigration doesn't feel the Ritz is doing a good enough job, permits become more difficult to obtain. It is completely irrelevant to Immigration, whether the Ritz is providing Ritz standards or not.
In contrast, I get my car washed at a local establishment that hires 100% foreigners. Why isn't there a burden on that employer to train Caymanians to wash cars?
The Ritz has to International standards it must adhere to. The car wash, on the other hand, does not. Why doesn't Immigration force the local car wash owner to train his own people or shut down? Are you telling me Caymanians don't know how to wash cars?
Do you not see the double standards and the negative social consequences that come from this?
I can't accept your arguement that Caymaians only want office jobs? They cannot be that delusional and / or lazy.
Thw word on the street is
Thw word on the street is that young Caymanians just don't want those jobs.
I am shame to hear that they
I am shame to hear that they don't want those kind of jobs, but yet we have Caymanians saying that expatriates taking away all the jobs, when it is our own young Cayamanians that is not applying for them, because the pay maybe small, but they still miss the whole point of them making a honest buck. So then they choose the other road to destroy their future, not to smart I must say.
Ppl assume this applies to
Ppl assume this applies to all young Caymanians...so now when i'm finished Uni and I'm applying for jobs employers will be hesitant to hire me because of what they heard about young Caymanians. The funny thing is there are so many young Caymanians coming out of school willing to work non-office work until they can get where they want but we're all being put into the same category. Many of us are willing to work and work hard so excuse me if I'm insulted when ppl assume that all young Caymanians are the same.
"Math estimates the PPM gave
"Math estimates the PPM gave out 2,800 residences".
What are you trying to say? Do you mean that the Permanent Residency Board under the PPM granted permanent residency to 2,800 people who applied and were assessed in accordance with the Immigration Law and Regulations?
"In accordance with the
"In accordance with the Immigration Law and Regulations". Surely you jest. If you think this was any less a friendship thing you are out of your mind. The ONLY way a points system would be remotely fair is if the applicant's name was not mentioned.
I'm aware of a board member's gardner getting residency while a qualified person, with property, got turned down because someone lied about that person. These are FACTS.
How is this more honorable than what the UDP did?
The point I'm making is the UDP put their friends through. The PPM put their friends through.
Obviously if the applicant's
Obviously if the applicant's name is not mentioned there would be no way of assessing the merits of the candidate. For example, if there is blank police clearance certificate, personal reference etc. it could be in respect of anyone, not necessarily the applicant.
I don't jest at all. What it seems like you are saying is that the grants were made by the Board but you personally are not satisfied that all of them were made or not made as the case may be, fairly. In that case you have a right of appeal and judicial review. O the other hand you must surely jest if you believe there is any comparison to the 3000+ status grants, the existence of which are an established fact not a fantasy indulged in for the purposes of partisan rhetoric.
What is the ILLITERACY
What is the ILLITERACY Rate?
Publish that....it would shock us all and give the Education Ministry something to really work on.
INNUMERACY rate?
INNUMERACY rate?
thats another caymanian
thats another caymanian secret...ignored by the media...
Last time I checked our
Last time I checked our literacy rate was somewhere about 100th in the world, slightly behind a couple of former Soviet republics famed for their high rates of corruption.
What do we expect when we
What do we expect when we have no academic requirements required to "graduate" from high school?
Every company with over ten
Every company with over ten employees should be required to run an apprenticeship program for young people as part of receiving a Trade and Business Licence, and the government should part sponsor their salaries, This private-public partnership would provide opportunities to many 18-24 year old unemployed individuals.
The most important part of
The most important part of your suggestion, which NO ONE in government seems to get is "Over Ten."
It is easier for larger companies to train than smaller ones. If a two man company has to train they don't have any time to get work done.
This is true for many fees as well.
Firms have to grow to a decent size before things are forced upon them.
Every company employing
Every company employing Expatriates with any skills is already required to do this. Unfortunately the Boards have not enforced it for years.
Trust me they do. Typically
Trust me they do. Typically when a local employee doesn't like an expat employee and contacts Board Members directly to oust the expat. Word of mouth is fact when it comes to these boards.
Then they should take it to
Then they should take it to Labour and immigration. Expatriates can and do get protection from both.
LMAO. Sorry for laughing,
LMAO. Sorry for laughing, but you see, therein lies another problem - Labour and Immigration are as bad, if not worse! There is nowhere for an ex pat to take a legitimate complaint as on each and every avenue stands an irate relative or friend of the person causing the trouble in the first place! As another poster has already said, this is a real problem here. Too many of us have comments like "my uncle/auntie/sister/brother/cousin works Immigration and I gonna get your permit revoked/get you thrown out of this country" thrown at us; and too many times, its resulted in just that.
That is complete nonsense. No
That is complete nonsense. No expat would feel safe reporting an incident to labour and immigration board or whoever. From experience I know that results in a swift flight home at best and in more extreme cases can mean some stories can be fabricated by these people to get expats in trouble with the law.
Any expat boss will tell you how precarious it is getting rid of Caymanian staff, depsite them being lazy, incompetent and not up to the job, it is nigh on impossible to get rid of them as they would report the boss to their cousin in immigration an expat would suddenly get his work permit pulled and sent home. This is the real situation here.
. . .Imagine all young
. . .Imagine all young Caymanian school leavers have an opportunity to complete apprenticeships in plumbing, electrical installations, carpentry, tiling, roofing, motor mechanics, office adminstration, hairdressing, retail sales, boat repairs, and so on. The government should also pay for those in apprenticeships to attend the excellent day courses at the Chamber of Commerce as part of their program.
I've been posting here on CNS
I've been posting here on CNS repeatedly calling for a vocational/tech college offering such training as you suggest 06.29. In addition, no graduation without academic achievement and qualification. Why do some expect the private sector to make up for where the government failed the people? Education is their ambit. They permit graduations without formal academic achievement and/or qualification. There's no incentive for the youth to achieve. Most are leaving school unemployable and then the government expects private practice to shape these young people's education instead. It's ludicrous. Now, if these young people had academic achievements and the will to learn and develop, they would be a damn sight easier to train when they reach the private sector. The problem with the current system is just as at school, the youngsters are expecting to get ahead by bare attendance only and this just doesn't cut it in the workplace.
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