Graduates lacking skills: report

5 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce
Abdul Aziz Ab Latif / ACLEDA / banking sector / business management / business management curriculum / Cambodian Economic Association / Chan Sophal / Chhay Soeun / chief financial officer Chhay Soeun / Country head Lim Loong Seng / educational policy / financial service industries / general standard of teaching and learning / HRINC / Hum Chan / Lim Loong Seng / OSK Group / president Chan Sophal / recruitment agency HRINC / Seng Bun Thoeun / Universiti Malaysia Kelanta / vice director of the National University of Management / Yohan Kurniawan

EVEN though about 50 per cent of Cambodian university students studied business management, the banking sector has been hesitant to recruit them, insiders said yesterday. A 2010 report by the recruitment agency HRINC (Cambodia) projected that the supply of business, marketing, management, banking and finance, economics and accounting students would be more than double the demand. The study predicted 103,000 graduates would be available, but there would be fewer than 46,000 jobs for them. A recent case study by Universiti Malaysia Kelanta explored “the gap between the business management curriculum and employability” in the Cambodian banking sector. …

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