Ministry boosts job opportunities for disabled graduates

The Higher Education Ministry will be cooperating with the Development of Persons with Disabilities Department in an effort to ensure disabled graduates in Malaysia obtain employment opportunities, reports Bernama.

Higher Education Deputy Director-General Professor Noor Azizi Ismail said his department would also assist the Development of Persons with Disabilities Department or JPOKU by channelling the information to the Public Service Department to ensure the quota of 1% disabled graduates in the civil service is achieved.

“We are made to understand by JPOKU that only 0.25% or about 3,500 disabled graduates are working in the civil service and the number has not met the quota set by the government.
To fulfil the quota, the department will provide information on the number of graduates completing their studies to JPOKU and the Public Service Department and we hope OKU [persons with disabilities] graduates in the public sector will increase,” he said after launching the Intervarsity OKU Motivator Icon Competition 2017.
Full report on the Malay Mail Online site