Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaking at the National Forum “Improving Vietnamese labor skills”. Photo: Quan Do).
Thu General Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized the role of vocational education at the National Forum “Improving skills labour Vietnam”. The program was organized by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the morning of November 16 in Hanoi.
Resources are not “forests of gold and seas of silver”
Speaking at the Conference, the Prime Minister highly appreciated the relationship between vocational education and competition to increase labor productivity in the context of increasingly deep world integration.
Especially this is meaningful for those who developing countries with low labor productivity like Vietnam.
The Prime Minister affirmed that assigning the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to unified state management of the field of vocational education is the right policy to improve professionalism.</p >
“Vietnam’s resources are not “forests of gold and seas of silver” but nearly 100 million people, including people’s labor skills and professional capacity. Labor is the decisive factor for development” – the Prime Minister emphasized.
Not only is it a domestic concern, vocational education is an issue that brings global.
The Prime Minister shared from the experience of successful development of developed countries that when other conditions do not change Increasing the scale and improving the quality of vocational education is the decisive factor and cohesion enterprise is strictly a focus of economic development.
The Head of the Government also assessed that in recent years the field of vocational education has had many remarkable initial changes.
“We have identified 130 key occupations and 40 high-quality vocational schools, many of which have good quality. In the last 3 years, vocational school enrollment has exceeded the target. Percentage of apprentices graduating with employment reached over 85% in many occupations up to 100%” – Prime Minister noted.
However, since 2013, the size of Vietnam’s labor force has begun to limit compared to the size of the economy.
This shows that The goal of improving productivity and quality of the workforce has become a vital issue in improving efforts to restructure the economy and innovate the growth model.
Need to change perception
In addition to evaluating the advantages, the Prime Minister also frankly pointed out many challenges Existing attitudes need to be adjusted in the development of vocational education.
The Prime Minister and delegates performed a ceremony to demonstrate the commitment between the State, enterprises and schools in innovating vocational education to improve labor skills Vietnamese movement. (Photo by Quan Do)
“The rate of trained Vietnamese workers with new degrees is more than 22%, equal to 1 /3 of Korea Taiwan Singapore. The quality of training has changed but still does not meet the needs of the market” – the Prime Minister commented.
Meanwhile, vocational schools are large but the number Schools that meet international standards are still low, so they are gradually losing their competitive edge. When students graduate, they are still weak in foreign language skills, industrial style, and labor discipline.
On the occasion of Vietnam Teachers’ Day November 20, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc sent best wishes to teachers in all regions. In particular, there are nearly 90,000 teachers working in the field of vocational education.
The system of vocational education institutions has developed developed for many years but was only planned to be a state management focal point more than 2 years ago. Therefore, the overall vocational education network still faces a “patchy” situation and is not synchronized between vocational schools.
The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Labor to Invalids and Social Affairs presides with relevant ministries and branches to research and design a draft directive to submit to the Government for approval on the cooperation mechanism between schools and enterprises in vocational skills training in key occupational fields.</p >Prime Minister visits the area display of vocational education institutions (Photo by Quan Do)
Provinces and cities need to have policies to prioritize projects with coordination between local vocational education institutions and businesses.
The Prime Minister also directed the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and relevant ministries to propose: New models Regarding pilot vocational training, students who have completed secondary school will enter vocational colleges to continue effectively implementing transfer programs from abroad and accelerating the arrangement of the network of vocational education institutions according to law.< /p>
Ministries and sectors build national vocational education open data to have short-term, medium-term and long-term forecasts on the need for human resources and training jobs according to the field of occupation and level of training.
“Improving the quality of Vietnamese labor also requires a change in the awareness of parents. students in businesses and socio-political organizations about the role of human resources with vocational skills for economic development” – the Prime Minister noted.
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