Building High Quality Labour Forces

Binh Dinh has issued Decision No. 26/QD-UBND dated January 15, 2007 approving the Plan of Socialising Vocational Training for the period of 2006-2010. The plan aims at mobilising all potential, intellectual and physical matters for the course of vocational training, offering learning opportunities to all social classes, especially policy beneficiaries, the poor and children of ethnic minority.

 

Under the Plan by 2010, 64,000 people will be given vocational training and socialised career cultivation courses. The number of vocational students will be 25,300 people, of which 60 per cent will study at private schools. Operation of more than half of public vocational training schools will be changed into service supply.

 

As of December, 2007, there were 23 vocational training centres in the province, of which three centres were managed by the central authorities. However, the present quality of vocation training centres is unable to meet the demand of training skilled workers to serve the course of socio-economic development while Binh Dinh is growing at a high rate.

To reorganise the vocational training network in the province by 2010 and orientation by 2020 in order to train technical workers, who will take direct part in production and service to meet the demand of labour market in quality, quantity, regional structure, career structure, and training level structure, the provincial People's Committee has issued Decision No. 06/2008/QD-UBND on January 21, 2008 approving the Plan on vocational training network in Binh Dinh by 2010 and orientation by 2020.

 

Accordingly, the Plan's targets are: to gradually build and complete existing vocational training centres in the direction of increasing training capability, quality and efficiency; to establish 10 training centres (of which 1 to 2 centres invested from private capital source); to guarantee conditions to satisfy three-tier training: college; high school; primary, training and cultivation; to obtain 50 per cent of workers being trained by 2010, and at least 55 per cent by 2020. Each district will have a training centre by 2020 to help learners in remote, mountainous and ethnic minority areas. By that time, the Province must have one Technology University, two vocational colleges, and four vocational high schools.

 

In addition to socialisation and expansion of vocational training network, the training quality also receives attentions from the provincial government. The objective and task of improving training quality is defined as raising quality and assuring training proportion among levels appropriate to the requirements of shifting economic and labour structure, and scientific and technical growth rate; emphasising on training technical workers, technicians and professional personnel.