vocational training

Update news vocational training

Overseas labour issues in the spotlight

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese workers staying in South Korea beyond the expiry of their labour contracts is a major cause towards Viet Nam's failure to achieve its goal of sending 90,000 workers overseas.

Vocational training for rural workers lacks proper funding

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government's scheme to provide vocational training for rural workers has met a number of obstacles since being implemented three years ago, largely due to funding shortages, said reports from several provinces.

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Thousands of bachelors employed as workers at Da Nang’s factory

The Poster Da Nang Electronic Co. Ltd has nearly 1,000 bachelor degree holders who work as normal workers. This is just a single example demonstrating the shortcomings and imbalance of the current human resource training in Vietnam.

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PM orders comprehensive education overhaul

The PM has recently requested the employment of specific measures to realize the Party Central Committee’s Conclusion 51-KL/TW on a decisive overhaul of Viet Nam’s tertiary education to meet requirements

Workers struggle to find jobs following vocational training

VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training will be offered to 600,000 rural employees this year under a national project that ends in 2020, according to the General Department of Vocational Training.  

Education needs priority in midland, northern mountainous provinces

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training, called for higher priority in the field of education and training in the midland and northern mountainous provinces.

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