In the integration process and the requirement of industrialisation and modernisation, the human resources of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province have not yet kept pace with the real requirement in both the professional skills and the labour consciousness and structure. A reporter of Vietnam Business Forum had an interview with Mr Tran Cong Minh, Director of the Department of Labour War Invalids and Social Affairs of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
Can you tell about the reality of the scale, the quality as well as the most salient achievements in vocational training in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province over the past time?
The province always puts training human resources in general and the technology industry human resources in particular at the top in the integration process and the industrialisation and modernisation development. In 2001, the province established a steering committee for developing human resources for the provincial socioeconomic development. In February 2002, the provincial People’s Committee approved a plan to develop vocational training in the province from 2001 through 2010.
According to the plan, the province built four technology industry schools, 13 vocational training and job centres for nearly 10,000 trainees per year. Currently, the province has two professional colleges, five professional intermediate schools, two secondary schools and colleges joining vocational training, seven vocational training centres and 16 other centres joining to train vocational for 23,000 trainees a year. Thanks to a teaching staff meeting the national standards, advanced and modern teaching equipment and infrastructure as well as updated curriculum, the province is able to provide over 22,000 trained labourers per year, meeting the human resources demand of domestic and foreign enterprises as well as helping to create jobs and eliminate hunger for the province.
Good awareness of relevant agencies, social institutions and enterprises in the province has played an important role in gaining the aforementioned achievements. Besides that, the Party’s policy to socialise in vocational training has helped to create unanimity in the commodity over the past time.
Is Ba Ria-Vung Tau’s vocational training appropriate to its socioeconomic development?
In the integration process and the industrialisation and modernisation requirement, human resources of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province have not yet satisfied the real requirement in both professional skills and the labour consciousness and structure despite the scale of vocational training centres can meet the demand. Up to 80 % of the labourers trained annually in the province have primary degree. The rate of labourers graduated from intermediate schools and colleges is still small while the professional skills of technology industry labourers are low to satisfy the requirement of the industrialisation and modernisation. Additionally, the ratio of labourers working in agriculture field is high, resulting to a low in productivity and the dependence on the weather.
How has Ba Ria-Vung Tau been implementing its vocational training?
The province has been complying with the resolution No. 90/NQ-CP issued August 21, 1997, the resolution No. 73/1999/ND-CP issued August 19, 1999, the resolution No. 05/NQ-CP issued April 18, 2005 and the resolution NO. 69/ND-CP issued May 30, 2008 on socialisation in education, vocational training, health, culture, sports and environment fields. In the provincial planning for vocational training in the 2001-2010 period, the province targeted to boost socialisation in technology industry training. Over the past decade, only two out of 32 vocational training centres in the province benefit from the state budget; one school can balance its finance by itself; four schools belong to the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), other enterprises and individuals; and 25 other centres established by institutions, enterprises and individuals. As many as 85 % of labourers annually graduates from non-public vocational training centres.
What is Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s plan to develop its vocational training?
Ba Ria-Vung Tau province has approved a plan to develop its technology industry human resources through 2020. The province targets to have 80 % of trained labourers, including 67 % of labourers graduated from vocational training centres and schools. The province plans to build two more professional colleges and two more professional intermediate schools meeting the national standards. Besides, the province plans to boost socialisation in investment in vocational training centres, to encourage foreign corporations to invest in tourism and shipbuilding sectors, and to create favourable conditions for big domestic groups to open their schools to train human resources for themselves. The province also plans to boost standardisation vocational training centres in line with regional and global standards in order to ensure the quality of human resources for the provincial socioeconomic development,
Reported by Trung Dung
Vietnamese
