Youth

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is working closely with the United Nations’s International Labor Organization to reduce, if not eliminate, youth unemployment in the country within six years.

MANILA, Philippines – To ensure its scholars get employed, especially in the Information Technology (IT) industry, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) enters into partnerships with private sector organizations.

The international community’s historic commitment to slash worldwide poverty in half by 2015 — known collectively as the Millennium Development Goals — has resulted in real advances: Primary school enrollment is up, new cases of preventable diseases are down, and millions of people have climbed out of extreme poverty. Yet even with these steps forward,…

Five days before Day 100, four young Filipinos assess the performance of the President It is Day 95. The Philippines wakes up to yet another hot issue in the news, more debates on the controversial Reproductive Health bill, more witnesses to the jueteng scandal.

SINCE the onset of the global economic crisis, between 2007 and 2009, unemployment among young people aged 15 to 24 years has increased by 7.8 million, with 80.7 million young people, the highest number ever, struggling to find work in 2009.

Liberia’s 14 year war left gaping holes in the infrastructure critical to investment and recovery and delayed a generation of youth from entering the labour market. Today, almost two-thirds of the population live in poverty. Youth between ages of 15 and 35 make up 53 per cent of the workforce, yet constitute 58 per cent…

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino is calling for the abolition of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK), saying it has not proven itself to be effective. The move will also save the government billions of pesos in expenses, officials say, adding that the youth could have a voice through a seat in the barangay council instead.

MANILA, Philippines- More youth will join the world’s growing population of jobless people this year, according to a study conducted by International Labor Organization (ILO). The fear of more young people the growing sector of unemployed was based on the ILO report issued to coincide with the launching of the UN International Youth Year.

BANGKOK, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) – Tanya Athikom’s search for a permanent job in the information technology sector has so far resulted in a string of disappointments. The Bangkok resident has thus been forced to accept short-term contracts in local and multinational companies here in the Thai capital.

GENEVA — Youth unemployment hit a record 81 million youngsters worldwide last year with the economic crisis, potentially breeding a “lost generation,” the International Labor Organization (ILO) said yesterday.

Youth unemployment stood at 13% globally at the end of 2009, equivalent to 81 million young people. That’s an increase of 7.8 million since 2007, prior to the global crisis. Here are other key findings:

GENEVA, Switzerland—Youth unemployment hit a record 81 million youngsters worldwide last year with the economic crisis, potentially breeding a “lost generation,” the International Labor Organization said on Thursday.

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has encouraged young people , including students and fresh graduates, to take a closer look at in-demand occupations, and develop the corresponding skills to avail of these job opportunities found in the country’s major and emerging industries.

MANILA, Philippines – A quarter of young Metro Manila residents say they cannot live without their mobile phones, according to a new survey.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven in 10 Filipino students suffer from different forms of violence in schools, a recent study done by a private institution showed.

Davao City (4 August) — The regional federation president of the Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP) here expressed high expectations that President Noynoy Aquino has concrete programs for the youth sector, citing particularly the out-of-school youth.

One of the most serious and longstanding problems of the Philippines is that of providing adequate employment opportunities for young people entering the workforce. As part of the two-year project (2005–2007) concerned with obtaining better recognition and understanding of the employment situation of young men and women, the ILO commissioned a survey of the youth…

Effectiveness of Alliance Building Strategy Validated Baltimore, Maryland:  Some 319 partners, nearly half from the private sector, helped expand education and employability opportunities for 30,000 young people in Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan and the Philippines, according to an evaluation report of five countries within the Education & Employment Alliance (EEA). ** An initiative of the…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is deploying 2,600 members of the Out of School Youth Toward Economic Recovery Program (OYSTER) for road repairs and clearing works to prepare Metro Manila for the rainy season.

By choosing their friends wisely, they survive-amazingly WHAT IS PEER pressure? “It’s the ever-present impulse to fit in with ‘popular’ people,” says 13-year-old E. Claire, an incoming high school freshman in an exclusive girls’ school in Metro Manila.

ACCORDING TO A STUDY MANILA, Philippines—Filipino temporary migrant workers tend to be younger and better educated than their domestic counterparts, a study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) yesterday urged young Filipinos to actively involve themselves in the global fight against climate change. In the Philippines, the CCC identifies the youth as one of the sectors vulnerable to climate change since they will be the future inhabitants of the planet.

Like previous generations, today’s teens seem to be constantly on the phone. But now they’re doing a lot more texting than talking. One third of teens in the U.S. text more than 100 times a day, according to a study released Tuesday by Pew Internet and American Life Project.

NEW YORK – All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today’s tech-savvy generation doesn’t care about privacy.

CEBU, Philippines – Department of Health-7 (DOH-7) yesterday started its recruitment of 60 college students, who are at least on their second year, especially those who took up medical courses such as Nursing and Physical Therapy and with good communication skills.

The results of the mock presidential election held by the University of Sto. Tomas is out. It is no longer surprising that former Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro topped the mock elections participated in by more than 13,000 students with 32.5 percent of the “votes” since he has emerged number in all surveys conducted in…

MANILA, Philippines – Youth in three major universities explored what they can do to address climate change, something that experts in a knowledge-sharing forum in Silliman University in Dumaguete City say is already at Filipinos’ doorsteps.

MANILA, Philippines — The youth plays an important part in helping stop the proliferation of illegal drugs in the country, the Dangerous Drugs Board said on Tuesday.

The problem of juvenile delinquency, however, is not one that we should casually accept as something we could live with. Police reports about crimes such as theft, rape, and drug-related cases often involve offenders who are below 18 years of age, mostly school dropouts. Sen. Kiko Pangilinan authored the law that would give alternative punishments…

LONDON – ROAD accidents, pregnancy and childbirth complications, suicide, violence, the Aids virus and tuberculosis are the biggest killers of young people across the world, according to a study published on Friday.