Take up courses to suit future job markets, urges Fadillah
KUCHING: Students should take up courses which would suit job markets in the future.
Works Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusuf said towards this end, parents should guide their children throughout their education and not merely sending them to school.
He added that parents should keep up with market needs, field of study and skills so that their children could fit into the job market once they graduate.
“Jobs like architect, engineer, quantity survey for example, may exist now, but in the future these jobs may be replaced by computers instead.
“Previously, we need people working in banks, now everything is done online, and it is not impossible that we will go into a fully cashless society in the future thus making bank jobs obsolete,” he said at the SK Buyong parents-teachers association (PTA) annual general meeting yesterday.
“Don’t just let them take up a field of study that is easy but nobody wants to hire.
“We need to guide our children and help shape their future.”
Apart from that parents also need to encourage their children to take up co-curricular activities in schools, not just academic studies, so that they can learn soft skills like communication to make them well-rounded human capital, he said.
Fadillah disclosed that his ministry would work with the district education department to help the school solve its various infrastructure problems like replacing a very old and dilapidated building in the school and to upgrade the road leading to the school’s entrance.
These issues were raised by PTA chairman Awang Khairudin Awang Buan in his speech earlier.
School headmaster Dayang Kamisiah Awang Johor was also present at the event.