College graduates want to be knitters

According to the latest data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute, one in three unemployed people in Turkey have a university degree.

The latest program published by İŞKUR revealed that the job is in the lion’s den for university graduates. It was learned that 2,692 of the 10,763 trainees enrolled in İŞKUR courses in 2022 were university graduates.

Among them, the preferred course was ‘Machinery for weaving garments’. In 2022, İŞKUR organized 514 professional training courses.

A total of 10,763 people attended the courses. 97 percent of apprentices preferred job-guaranteed vocational training courses. The most requested training courses in 2022 were ‘Garment weaving machinery’ with a total of 3,571 students, ‘Assistant women’s clothing modeler’ with 1,249 students and ‘Assembly worker’ with 452 students.

25 PERCENT COLLEGE

According to the educational level of the trainees benefiting from the vocational training courses, 2 thousand 692 associate, bachelor and postgraduate graduates applied for İŞKUR courses.

Although 25 percent of the total number of interns are university graduates, the distribution of interns according to their graduation status is as follows: Illiterate 12. Literate 907. Primary education 4 thousand 242. Secondary education 2 thousand 910. Associate degree 959 Degree thousand 684. Graduated 49.

Commenting on the İŞKUR data, CHP Adana MP Burhanettin Bulut said: “Millions of young people cannot do the job in which they received their education. They are forced to work unsecured and insecure jobs for minimum wage or less. Young people form the majority of the queues at the gate of İŞKUR.”

UNEMPLOYMENT HAS BECOME CHRONIC

Saying that unemployment in Turkey has become chronic in the last 20 years, CHP Adana MP Burhanettin Bulut stated that we are facing the highest unemployment rate in the history of the Republic.

Bulut said: “The youth unemployment rate is increasing day by day. Universities lacking in quality and infrastructure, built by the government with the motto of ‘a university in each province’, instead of being a solution to unemployment, increased it. In our country we have 208 universities and millions of young people who graduate from these universities every year. Official figures show that one in three unemployed people have a university degree.