HCM City targets 55 percent of workers trained

The rate of workers receiving vocational training must reach 50 percent in the whole country and 55 percent in Ho Chi Minh City by 2010, said Chairwoman of the HCM City People’s Council Pham Phuong Thao.

To fulfill the city’s target, Chairwoman Thao said the municipal People’s Committee will have land planning, investment and other policies to facilitate the coordination between businesses and vocational training schools to raise the training quality.

In an interview with the Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) newspaper, Thao emphasised the necessity to develop, expand and raise training quality at vocational schools, adding that the country has a great demand for trained workers.

However, she noted, the city’s rate of trained workers is currently hitting around 46 percent of while that rate was only 30 percent for the whole nation. Meanwhile, the same rate in European countries reached 56 percent and around 50 percent in other Asian nations, she said.

During a working visit to vocational training schools in the city on July 31, Rector of the Cao Thang Technical Junior College Dao Khanh Du told Chairman Thao that his college will enroll 3,500 students for different training levels in engineering, automation, electronics and information technology.

Last year, the college turned out 1,700 students and the figure is expected to be 2,400 this year, he said. All the students are interns at and employed by 300 businesses that have relationship with the college.

Meanwhile, up to 80 percent of students from the Hung Vuong Engineering Technology School are employed after their graduation.-