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Industry links up with vocational educators to reduce skill gap

Close co-operation is needed between government agencies, enterprises and vocational training schools to reduce the skill gap in Vietnam’s labour market, the head of the General Directorate of Vocational Training said at a two-day workshop held last week in the city.
Industry links up with vocational educators to reduce skill gap ảnh 1Better co-operation between Government, enterprises and vocational training schools is needed to reduce skill gap (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) - Close co-operation is needed betweengovernment agencies, enterprises and vocational training schools to reduce theskill gap in Vietnam’s labour market, the head of the General Directorateof Vocational Training said at a two-day workshop held last week in thecity.

Nguyen Hong Minh said that closer co-operation among companies,their trade associations and government agencies would help schools set uptraining standards more effectively.

Co-operation would also help students at vocational trainingschools have more chances for internships, he added.

The workshop, held by the Australian Government and the GeneralDirectorate of Vocational Training, is part of a 146 million AUD (109.5 millionUSD) Aus4Skills project, an Australian Government-funded human resourcedevelopment programme for Vietnam which runs from 2016 to 2020.

Workshop participants discussed the problems that hinder thequality and relevance of vocational education and training in Vietnam,especially in the logistics sector.

The workshop provided an overview of Australia’s industry-linkedvocational education and training system, and how its model of usingoccupational standards can help ensure high quality relevant training.

The outcomes of the workshop will inform the implementation planfor Aus4Skills in which promotion of industry linkages with vocationaleducation and training in logistics will be piloted to improveindustry competitiveness, Graham Alliband, the programme’s director, said.

Aus4Skills aims to focus on four occupational standards inlogistics: warehouse operator and supervisor, logistics administrator andfreight forwarder.

The logistics industry in Vietnam has great demand forhigh-quality human resources with both professional expertise andEnglish-language competency, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Of nearly 1 million people working in the industry, there are only6,000 skilled staff.

Only around 24 percent of the industry workforce has attended logisticstraining courses in Vietnam, while 3.9 percent have attended logistics trainingabroad. Around 80 percent have received on-the-job training only.

Around 10 percent of the workforce has a good command of Englishin the logistics field.

There are no large-scale or full-time logistics training coursesin Vietnam and many companies have been recruiting graduates from universitiesand colleges whose majors do not include logistics.-VNA
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