Reflection paper
Reflection Paper
Li Jian
B11010198
U Hon Kun
B1101305
Yeap Heng Tat
B1103203
Department of Psychology
PSY 312
Mr. Eric Bryan Amaladas
Social Problems and Human Rights
An increasing number of social problems can be seen in our country. In the lecture, our guest speaker mentioned several social problems such as unemployment, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, child abuse and bullying. These social problems have a lot of negative effects to our youth and they will also affect the development of our society and country. Thus, more attention and efforts should be paid to control and solve these problems in order to prevent it increasing continuously.
Firstly, it can be easily founded in our newspaper that there is a high rate of unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. According to The Star Newspaper (Ji, 2013), there are about 40% of public university graduates are unemployed or stuck in mismatched occupations. Particularly, a survey which conducted in 2011 found that there were around 25% of graduates being jobless in the past six months. This news has been proved by Education Ministry official, Dr. Mohd Azlan Yahya. He mentioned that this phenomenon may be caused by the graduates have less practical experiences which may not be supplied by their education. Furthermore, he also said that the lack of language proficiency in English may be one of the reasons. Graduates may not have sufficient knowledge and competency for the jobs they are looking for. He suggested that one of the methods to manage this problem is to encourage the graduates to be more entrepreneurial. He also stated that government should ensure that the graduates possess sufficient experiences so that they are able to sustain their business.
Abortion among teenagers is also becoming a serious social problem in Malaysia. According to World Health Organization (WHO) (1992, as cited in Family Care International, 2005), unsafe abortion is one of the top five causes of
Li Jian
B11010198
U Hon Kun
B1101305
Yeap Heng Tat
B1103203
Department of Psychology
PSY 312
Mr. Eric Bryan Amaladas
Social Problems and Human Rights
An increasing number of social problems can be seen in our country. In the lecture, our guest speaker mentioned several social problems such as unemployment, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, child abuse and bullying. These social problems have a lot of negative effects to our youth and they will also affect the development of our society and country. Thus, more attention and efforts should be paid to control and solve these problems in order to prevent it increasing continuously.
Firstly, it can be easily founded in our newspaper that there is a high rate of unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. According to The Star Newspaper (Ji, 2013), there are about 40% of public university graduates are unemployed or stuck in mismatched occupations. Particularly, a survey which conducted in 2011 found that there were around 25% of graduates being jobless in the past six months. This news has been proved by Education Ministry official, Dr. Mohd Azlan Yahya. He mentioned that this phenomenon may be caused by the graduates have less practical experiences which may not be supplied by their education. Furthermore, he also said that the lack of language proficiency in English may be one of the reasons. Graduates may not have sufficient knowledge and competency for the jobs they are looking for. He suggested that one of the methods to manage this problem is to encourage the graduates to be more entrepreneurial. He also stated that government should ensure that the graduates possess sufficient experiences so that they are able to sustain their business.
Abortion among teenagers is also becoming a serious social problem in Malaysia. According to World Health Organization (WHO) (1992, as cited in Family Care International, 2005), unsafe abortion is one of the top five causes of
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