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Ministry offers training to 1.7 million labourers

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has set a goal of offering vocational training to nearly 1.8 million labourers in 2014, up two percent against 2013.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has set agoal of offering vocational training to nearly 1.8 million labourers in2014, up two percent against 2013.

According toDuong Duc Lan, head of the General Department for Vocational Trainingunder the MOLISA, the ministry will work to get 280,000 labourerstrained in colleges and schools, and another 1.5 million, including500,000 from rural areas, will receive training courses that last up tothree months.

Lan said the department will step upvocational training reform to meet the industrialisation andmodernisation requirements in the context of Vietnam ’s increasinginternational integration.

The department willdesign a grassroots network of 1,465 vocational trainingestablishments, while coordinating with the Ministry of Education andTraining to build a national quality standard framework to submit to theGovernment in February.

It will also step up preparations for the ASEAN Skills Competition that it will host in October this year, he said.

In 2013, the country had 1,339 vocational training facilities,including 162 colleges, 302 vocational schools and 875 centres, offeringtraining to 1.7 million labourers.

More than 1.5 million labourers, including 450,000 from rural areas, participated in short-term training courses.-VNA
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