Graduate Unemployment in Iraq: Reality and Solutions

The graduate unemployment crisis in Iraq is of great importance among the negative crises and problems that Iraq is facing today without solutions. This phenomenon, in its various repercussions, represents an active source of social tension, and at the same time, it is one of the worst sources (crises) of the relationship between authority and society. The limited employment opportunities for university graduates is due to the weakness of the educational curricula and their weak connection with the needs of the labor market. The presence of large numbers of educated unemployed comes as a result of the inability of the production sectors to create job opportunities to the required extent. Studies related to contemporary global trends to confront the unemployment crisis of graduates emphasize the importance of linking education to production institutions, and thus to identifying the needs of the labor market, as the labor market occupies the utmost importance for many developed countries, through economic institutions which prepare and train the groups and cadres that they need at their own expense, or by spending on it in educational institutions.