13:52, 29 December 2009 | GMT +5
Every firth graduate sent to work under youth procurement program was employed - Labor Minister
ASTANA. December 29. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ Every fifth graduate sent for work under the Government's Youth Procurement Program has been employed. Gulshara Abdykalikova, Minister of Labor and Social Protection, has informed of it at the Cabinet's session in Astana today.

"Particular attention was given to the issues of youth employment. Out of 50 thousand graduates every fifth one was sent to work at enterprises under the Youth Procurement Program and found a job", the Minister said.
Along with this, Minister of Education and Science Zhansseit Tuimebayev said that 100 thousand people had been sent for retraining courses in 2009. 66 thousand finished them.