Benedicta Du-Baladad, president of the Management Association of the Philippines, who spoke about the many projects and concerns of MAP. Many college graduates can’t find jobs and many employers can’t find qualified/experienced graduates for specific businesses and industries. The suggestion was for the education sector to audit or review the available menu of college courses, the level of employability of graduates and compensation in order to determine the relevance and usefulness of those courses. Adding to the mismanaged offerings of college courses, the majority of Filipino students can’t afford a four-year course. What we also want to reduce is the wasted money on a four-year college education that does not even give parents and graduates a respectable ROI in terms of wages and benefits in the future.
