At NDU fair: job creation requires legislative reform and new infrastructure

The recruitment office at Notre Dame University NDU, inaugurated yesterday its annual ‘Job Prospects for 2016’ fair under the auspices of the President of the Maronite Diaspora Institute, Neemat Freim, and with the participation of some 60 commercial, banking and hospitality institutions. On the occasion, the NDU’s vice president for cultural and public relations affairs, Suheil Matar, cautioned against the considerable number of unemployed persons in the country combined with the imminent social emergency situation resulting from the refugee crisis. Matar drew attention to the government’s lack of capacity to develop the vocational education sector at the expense of the higher education system, which, he explained, could lead to extensive joblessness in the latter. For his part, Freim suggested two solutions to secure a proper milieu for generating jobs: firstly, the reform of legislation following political agreement, and secondly, the development of infrastructure. (Al Diyar, April 22, 2016)