Emphasis on human resources

The Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan sheds some light on plans to strengthen the quality of human resources in a talk with Vietnam Investment Review.

What has Vietnam achieved in terms of developing vocational training in the past couple of years?

The vocational training system continues to advance with closer ties between vocational training facilities and the business community through diverse cooperative models such as job promotion and provision of teaching aids.

Particularly, over 90 per cent of graduates at training facilities at enterprises could find jobs when they finish training because these training bases have established a training syllabus to satisfy actual market requirements.

However, the system still fails to keep up with burgeoning demands for a quality technical workforce, particularly in some key areas, and features an imbalanced employment structure in different regions across the country, with big urban areas procuring prevailing advantages.

What will be the vocational training sector’s core orientations in 2011 and ensuing years to achieve its vision of ameliorating the quality of human resources?

Vietnam aims to provide vocational training to 10 million people from 2011-2015, of which over 1.8 million will be recruited and trained in 2011. To enhance human resources quality, efforts will be made to check up and revise the vocational training network to make it compliant with the social and economic development strategy of the country as well as of a particular region or economic sector; and put into place a capable vocational training system, which is in a position to provide quality technical workforce in diverse production and service fields.

Training labourers in rural areas is not a simple task. What will the authorities do to create jobs in rural areas?

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will continue attaching occupational training for labourers in rural areas to the new urban area development programme under which the labourers in selected model communes will be trained in diverse occupations.

In recent years, some cities and provinces have made smart moves in terms of labour training which generated significant and practical effects. For example, a commune can hold 10 training courses on cultivation, animal husbandry or craft skills, where attendants are given useful knowledge and can participate in field surveys. Many companies came to these courses to sign contracts with trainers directly or pledge to consume all products made by trainees.