Policy measures key to tackling graduate unemployment

By Wagdy Sawahel. Weak links between higher education and the labour market lead to a high level of youth unemployment, which represents a waste of human resources and increases the social exclusion that makes societies more vulnerable to civil disorder and political upheaval.
This was the main message from a 4 August European Training Foundation report, The Challenge of Youth Employability in Arab Mediterranean Countries – The role of active labour market programmes.
The report analyses the challenges of youth unemployment in five North African countries including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia along with three other Arab countries – Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. Read more...