Rising graduate unemployment may ‘cause social revolt’

Educational experts believe the large number of unemployed university graduates in Turkey, growing every year because of an ill-planned education system, may create social disturbances and even revolt in the coming years, writes Osman Unalan for Today’s Zaman.

According to the results of the 2015 Undergraduate Placement Examination, or LYS, 1.2 million out of 2 million candidates filed a preference list for placement in a university in Turkey. Speaking to Sunday's Zaman, Ibrahim Ortas, a professor at Çukurova University who has been following the failure of the education system in Turkey, said the majority of high school students enrolled in the LYS do not know exactly what they want from a university and choose their faculties according to the expected salaries of professions.

Ortas believes that in a country whose economy has not been growing sufficiently for years, whose gross national product per capita has not grown more than US$10,000 for years and which doesn't attract much foreign investment, the high number of unemployed youth will easily spark social disturbance or a revolt against the system.
Full report on the Today’s Zaman site