Nearly 100,000 young people – equal to a large sports stadium — in South Asia enter the labor market every day, making it the world’s largest youth labor force. However, in the coming decade, more than half of them will lack the education and skills required for employment, predicts a report by the UNICEF.
One of the major reasons, states the report, is an outdated education system that equips students with neither the skills required for professional jobs nor the optimal training to fill vocational jobs that the labor market will demand.
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These skills include those related to the use of technology, digitization, and automation that most professions now rely on and require their staff to know at least the basics of these.
Source: The Swaddle
