Survey Shows That Most Overseas Graduates Won’t Return Home to Work

By Chan Shun Wen

February 2021 U-40
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC has all but upturned carefully laid plans for many, not least for the thousands of fresh graduates from overseas universities. Faced with dwindling job opportunities and choices overseas, many have opted to return to their home country to bide their time or to take stock of their options.Shun Wen holds a Master's degree in International History from the London School of Economics.As I sat out my quarantine in KL, I wondered if the sheer number of students...

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Chan Shun Wen

A recent Master's graduate from the LSE in international history, Shun Wen has enjoyed history since he began digging for "fossils" from dinosaur kits at the age of three. Ascribing to his school's motto "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" which means understanding the causes of things in Latin, Shun Wen continues to dig into the past to shed light on the future.


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