Gangwon Vocational High School Employment Rate at 49%... Councilor Lee Younguk: "Seek Out Employers"

Gangwon Provincial Council: Employment rate 6.8 percentage points below national average
Urges support for unemployed graduates and admission opportunities for local students

Gangwon Provincial Council member Lee Youngwook. Provided by the Gangwon Provincial Council.

Gangwon's vocational high schools have some of the lowest employment rates in the country, an issue raised during an administrative audit by the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Provincial Council.

Provincial Councilor Lee Younguk (People Power Party, Hongcheon 1) called for measures to make employment support more effective during an administrative audit of education support offices on November 9. "The employment rate at vocational high schools in the province is 49.0%, 6.8 percentage points below the national average of 55.8%," he said.

"Vocational high schools train the skilled workers needed at industrial sites, so their role should not end with teaching students and seeing them graduate," Lee said. "Please review the employment support provided at each school and encourage them to take an active role in finding employers."

He emphasized that each school should strengthen cooperation with companies related to its academic programs by signing business agreements, so that graduation can lead to employment. He also called for continued career counseling and job placement support for students who are unable to find work after graduating.

Regarding plans to develop Taebaek's Korea Aviation High School and Korea Tax and Finance High School into schools that attract students from across the country, Lee praised the commitment to moving forward but stressed that local students' opportunities to attend the schools must also be guaranteed.

"Efforts to strengthen the schools' competitiveness must not prevent local students from receiving the education they want," Lee said. "Please also consider ways to guarantee local students opportunities for admission."

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