Three in four youth lack skills needed for employment, says new report

Nearly three-quarters of young people aged 15 to 24 in 92 countries with available data are off-track to acquiring the skills needed for employment, according to a new report published by the Education Commission and UNICEF ahead of World Youth Skills Day.

The report, titled ‘Recovering learning: Are children and youth on track in skills development?’ features analyses on skills development in early childhood, and among children of primary school age and youth, according to a statement issued on Thursday.

LinkedIn for part-time job: Does it help?

LinkedIn is an American social media network developed specifically for employment and job-related services. It is well established in the developed world as a place for employers and potential job seekers to look for their desired options.

LinkedIn, still in its blooming stage in Bangladesh, is mostly used by University students to look for part-time internships or apprenticeships. And sometimes it has been really helpful. Zakia Sameen Nur, a fourth-year student of Economics at the University of Dhaka told the writer,

"I find LinkedIn to be a handy platform for students, provided you use it correctly. Using LinkedIn is how I’d found my apprenticeship at Bongo."

'UK offers more opportunities to skilled youths'

Jyotsna Islam was born in the late 1960s in Neasden, a London borough of Brent in Britain. Her father, Abdur Rahman, was a restaurateur and business entrepreneur in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Her ancestral home is located in Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh. Her husband Sham Islam is also a public representative in the UK.
Jyotsna Islam began her political career in 2010, despite having been a member of Britain's Lab

How to make reading pleasant

What do a Facebook meme, a good novel, and our textbooks have in common? We all have to read them. Reading has become an indispensable activity in our lives. However, reading is not usually something that everyone enjoys all the time. For example, you can observe the distinct difference between a student glancing through their textbook and someone reading their favourite book. However, in the age of social media and the curtailed attention span of youths, reading is evolving. Merely saying words aloud from books is not enough anymore. The new generation always wants something exciting and new, traits that they do not associate with books, especially textbooks. So, we will dig deep and find out how to put the habit of reading back on top.
Four students' take on textbooks: The type of books that are read by the youth the most is textbooks. The structure in which the textbooks are written is heavily reliant on the academic curriculum present in Bangladesh. That being said, the structure in question is not a popular one amongst most students.

US embassy expects to clear student visa backlogs before fall

The US embassy here has said they were hopeful to clear huge backlog of student visa ahead of the fall session as its consular section was engaged in processing them even on Friday weekends, BSS reports.

"We are doing everything we can clear the backlog, the embassy is really prioritizing this," a consular officer of US embassy told BSS.

She said the consular section was hopeful to clear the backlogs by fall as a group of officials were engaged only in processing the student visas intending to attend the fall semester in US universities.