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Brunei labour underutilisation at 18% Koo Jin Shen BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Wednesday, February 3, 2016 AROUND 30,200 persons in Brunei are working in occupations requiring skill levels below their educational attainment in 2014, according to a report from the Department of Economic Planning and Development (JPKE). In the executive summary of the Labour Force Survey, the department outlined that this skill mismatch represented about 15.9 per cent of the total employment of some 189,600 persons. For the 15 to 24 year-old workers, the survey said the skill mismatch rate was significantly higher at 22.6 per cent. JPKE said labour underutilisation was at 18.0 per cent, more than double than that of the national unemployment rate of 6.9 per cent. In total, about 38,800 persons were affected by labour underutilisation, either as not working as many hours as they wanted, as unemployed, or in the potential labour force as available non-jobseekers or unavailable jobseekers. The depa...

The Ministry of Education launched its strategic plan for 2007 to 2011 recently. I wasn’t able to attend the launching itself but our agency's representative was able to attend it and gave me a copy of the plan. The launching ceremony was quite huge compared to most launching of government ministries’ strategic plans. I thought among others, the Ministry of Education’s plan for the future is something of use for all of us to know, so despite the ‘no part of this publication may be reproduced etc…’ I am going to pretend I did not see that. The strategic plan based on Kaplan’s Balanced Scorecard Approach (I wrote about this when Kaplan was here in Brunei in April last year) enables Ministry of Education “to clarify its vision and strategy and translate them into action. The BSC helps to provide feedback around both the internal business processes and external outcomes in order to continuously improve strategic performance and results. The balanced scorecard transforms strategic pla...