Kien Giang promotes vocational training

Last year, 39,993 rural workers were trained, including 10,493 trained under Project 1956, accounting for 160 percent of the annual plan; 30,828 workers were trained for less than three months; 7,830 attended primary vocational training courses; 798 attended secondary vocational training courses; 537 went to vocational training colleges; 55 percent of the total rural workers were trained in agricultural occupations (such as seafood and safe vegetable farming), while the remainder were trained in non- agricultural occupations (such as sales and garment making); and 82.8 percent of those succeeded in finding work in the sector they were trained in.

These positive achievements have resulted from efforts by provincial related authorities and agencies to promote Project 1956. Vocational training activities have been persified including training on demands and contracts.

Vocational training facilities have focused more on training on demands and promoted vocational training cooperation between the government, the vocational training facility and the business, while taking into account local socioeconomic development strategies.
In the provincial vocational training plan for the 2016-2020 period, Kien Giang aims to train 60,000 rural workers in total or 10,000 workers per year. To achieve the aim, it has outlined several key solutions including improving vocational training propaganda and awareness amongst the provincial authorities and population, asking localities to actively select appropriate vocations for training in accordance with local potential in agriculture, industries and services, promoting vocational training based on demand and contracts, with a view to providing sufficient quality labor for local industrial parks and clusters and tourist destinations.

Hong Duong