Education and Social Policy
Education and Social Policy
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Domestic PolicyBrain drain and reversing the trend
Reversing brain drain should be seen as an integral aspect of human capital development.
By Jason Loh -
Education and Social Policy
Covid-19 endemic stage: Healthier lifestyle can make a big difference
Empowerment of individual health is a crucial and indispensable component of social protection and community-level resilience against current and future health crises.
By Ameen Kamal -
Bahasa Malaysia
Mechanisation in the plantation industry a boon for eradicating underemployment
And this could also solve the triple problems of unemployment, underemployment and too much reliance on foreign labour.
By Jamari Mohtar -
Domestic Policy
Very risky to reopen schools in September
Premature school reopening gambles our children’s life, health, and future functional capacity.
By Ameen Kamal -
Domestic Policy
Breakthrough infections threaten NRP indicators and the fully-vaxxed
Breakthrough cases and high infectivity rate of variants could make vaccination targets to be underestimated, and threaten NRP indicators towards recovery.
By Ameen Kamal -
Education and Social Policy
Preventing Unemployment Suicides
Early intervention on suicide prevention is necessary to help unemployed individuals with suicide attempts finding new ways to start all over again.
By Amanda Yeo -
Education and Social Policy
Graduate unemployment (and under-employment) – part of our structural growth challenge
Otherwise, graduate and youth unemployment and under-employment will increasingly become a part of our broader structural growth challenge in the years to come.
By Rais Hussin and Jason Loh -
Domestic Policy
Addressing structural issues to gain overall employability
The government has to work harder to ensure that the actual unemployment figures for subsequent months after June onwards can be brought down.
By Jamari Mohtar and Amanda Yeo -
Domestic Policy
Testing for reopening – simultaneous containment and controlled reopening
Reopening of non-essential industries should be conditional upon testing – if vaccination hasn’t been applied.
By Jason Loh -
Domestic Policy
Targeted assistance is required to reach the most vulnerable
"The current administration could use the white flag as the determinant, initiating more outreach programmes to assist people in need."
By Amanda Yeo
