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Dr Niaz Asadullah, Southeast Asia Lead at the Global Labor Organisation & Professor of Economics, Monash University Malaysia

22-Mar-23 08:30

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Can Malaysia's structural problem when it comes to labour, wages and the availability of jobs. be addressed with more of our young embarking on Technical and Vocational Education and Training? The Human Resources Ministry believes this may be the answer as it seeks to restructure these programmes in Malaysia. Dr Niaz Asadullah, Southeast Asia Lead at the Global Labour Organisation and a Professor of Economics, Monash University Malaysia, talks to us about the solutions he envisions.

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Produced by: Sim Wie Boon

Presented by: Keith Kam, Shazana Mokhtar

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Categories: government, economy, education

Tags: tvet, vocational training, youth unemployment,

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