A total of 400,000 people will benefit from the first year of a vocational training scheme for rural workers until 2020, said the General Department of Vocational Training (GDVT) of the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
Around 12,000 of the beneficiaries are disadvantaged rural workers and ethnic people. Eighty percent of them are expected to get jobs after training.
GDVT Deputy Head Cao Van Sam said that three vocational training models are being applied in target areas, which combine job training with the development of existing or new craft villages, and the building of material zones.
The general department has collaborated with enterprises, industrial zones and vocational schools to help rural workers acquire necessary skills to work in industry and services or local industrial and export processing zones.
At a recent conference on vocational training for rural workers in the northern province of Nam Dinh, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan requested that training should be started in all target communes before the end of coming October. All districts must have officials in charge of the task, he said.
The 26 trillion VND scheme, which was approved by the Government in November 2009, aims to provide vocational training to more than 1 million rural workers each year from now until 2020.
According to the ministry, the rate of rural workers receiving vocational training is now standing at 18.7 percent, as against the national rate of 25 percent./.
Around 12,000 of the beneficiaries are disadvantaged rural workers and ethnic people. Eighty percent of them are expected to get jobs after training.
GDVT Deputy Head Cao Van Sam said that three vocational training models are being applied in target areas, which combine job training with the development of existing or new craft villages, and the building of material zones.
The general department has collaborated with enterprises, industrial zones and vocational schools to help rural workers acquire necessary skills to work in industry and services or local industrial and export processing zones.
At a recent conference on vocational training for rural workers in the northern province of Nam Dinh, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan requested that training should be started in all target communes before the end of coming October. All districts must have officials in charge of the task, he said.
The 26 trillion VND scheme, which was approved by the Government in November 2009, aims to provide vocational training to more than 1 million rural workers each year from now until 2020.
According to the ministry, the rate of rural workers receiving vocational training is now standing at 18.7 percent, as against the national rate of 25 percent./.
