Senators pressed for urgent action to address the perennial problem of fresh graduates experiencing difficulty in landing jobs due to lacking “soft skills” – like communication, adaptation, teamwork, and creativity – and practical expertise. | BPinlacINQ
The legislator hoped that the second Education Commission would chart “a game-changing strategy” that would address the issues hounding the sector and that the leaders of education agencies are “committed and competent to execute it in partnership with the different stakeholders, especially the teachers and the students.”
“It’s one of the concerns our educational system needs to address going forward, alongside poor reading comprehension, among others. Parents must also do their part as much as possible, though this is difficult with Overseas Filipino Worker parents and other realities on the ground,” he said in a separate statement.‘Honest-to-goodness’ review of K to 12
The human rights body pointed out that the program provides senior high school students the much-needed competencies, but “not much attention is given to developing their life and soft skills, which, as the employer participants attest, are equally important in the workplace.”Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva also said more has yet to be done by all agencies if they aim to break the country’s unemployment cycle.
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