Preparing youths for a tough job market must be made a national agenda

With more than 250 booths, the Facon Education Fair provides an ideal platform to meet globally recognised higher learning institutions that will be disseminating information on further education opportunities.

PETALING JAYA: Tackling youth unemployment must be made a permanent national agenda with the policies orientated towards equipping the country’s younger generation for an increasingly tough job market.

Bank Negara said socio-economic developments in the past few years have dramatically worsened the state of youth unemployment globally.