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Private sector’s engagement crucial to vocational training

The engagement of the private sector is crucial to building a standardized vocational training system in 2020, thus improving the quality of human resources to the regional and world standards, heard a conference in Hanoi on December 2.
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Hanoi (VNA) – The engagement of the private sectoris crucial to building a standardized vocational training system in 2020, thusimproving the quality of human resources to the regional and world standards,heard a conference in Hanoion December 2.

The event,jointly held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA),the French Development Agency (AFC) and the UNESCO in Vietnam, aimsto seek ways to call for stronger involvement of the private sector in thework.

Accordingto the MOLISA, there are about 2,000 vocational training facilities nationwide,half of them are owned by the private sector.

Over thepast years, the Party and State have allocated a considerable resource forvocational training, while issuing a number of policies to support the work,including the Law on Vocational Training which was effective from July 1, 2015and the Strategy for Vocational Training Development in the 2011-2020 period.

Majorobjectives of the strategy are to make planning for vocational trainingfacilities basing on sector, region and locality, with priority given to non-Statenewly-established facilities.

Thestrategy also encourages the cooperation for the formation of foreign-funded facilities,while calling for the engagement of the private sector in the field anddiversifying resources for the expansion of vocational training, includingcapital from the State, businesses, trainees as well as domestic and foreign investors.

Participantspointed to a number of shortcomings in Vietnam’s vocational training, includingpoor capacity of training facilities, especially in management, as well as losecoordination between training facilities and businesses.

They stressedthe need for stronger engagement of private firms in the work to increase thecompetitiveness of vocational training facilities and system, thusstandardising the system by 2020.

Theysuggested that the Party and State should organise public-private dialogues to strengthenthe role of trade associations and the business community in the management ofvocational training.

It isnecessary to build training programmes towards renovation and modernisation tosuit the market requirements, while designing support policies to non-State facilities,they said.-VNA
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