Sustainable Development Goal 4 is especially important in Uganda, where access to and reliability of quality education leaves much to be desired. Guest blogger Brownie Ebal has seen this [...]
Like elsewhere, education and youth unemployment in Indonesia are inextricably linked. Guest blogger Geby Devtiana Maryono explains how. In 2013, there were 23.941 large-scale industry companies [...]
Youth unemployment in Guinea is one of many challenges the country faces, notes guest blogger Ousmane Ba. Like other African nations, Guinea has one of the youngest populations in the world with [...]
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It’s World Youth Skills Day. We’re thrilled the UN is dedicating a day to this issue and drawing global attention to education, the youth unemployment crisis and the skills gap. Do [...]
Guest blogger Amadou Moctar Diallo attended the UN ECOSOC’s fourth annual youth forum in February 2015 on “Youth Engagement in the Transition from MDGs to SDGs: What will it take?” The [...]
A critical analysis of the urban-rural divide in youth unemployment by guest blogger Lionel Kpenou-Chobli. Africa has 200 million young people aged 15 to 24 years, more than 20% of the [...]
Work the Change tackles the skills gap by preparing students for the school-to-work transition through employability workshops. One of the youth unemployment crisis causes is the skills gap. This [...]
Guest blogger Muhammad Furqan Ubaid looks at education in Pakistan and where it needs to improve. Muhammad Imran, resident of Rajanpur, Southern Punjab says, “I am a farmer that works the land [...]
Early one morning, I woke up and decided to take a walk to see how badly has the deadly Ebola virus affected my country. I came across an empty classroom where I met couple of my friends. I asked [...]