(VEN) – The key industry and trade sector annually contributes up to 70 percent of the country’s GDP and requires large numbers of high quality human resources.
A Ministry of Industry and Trade's human resource development workshop
However, according to calculations, training institutions under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) just meet 30 percent sectoral training needs by 2020.
According to MOIT’s Department of Human Resource Development, 53 training institutions under the ministry expect to train 202,000 students this year, 199,000 students by 2015, and 263,000 students by 2020. These numbers only meet more than 50 percent of the sector’s labor needs compared with the government’s plan.
According to Director of Human Resource Development Phuong Hoang Kim, the quality of human resources has been improved although not yet by a significant margin. Currently, the percentage of untrained workers is fairly high, accounting for 58 percent; trained workers also do not met with employer requirements; and even 60 percent of graduates must be retrained. In addition, human resources are unsuitably structured; therefore, the sector still faces a lack of skilled workers, a low proportion of engineers, and low labor productivity.
To address this issue, MOIT recently organized a workshop on the implementation of the sectoral human resource development plan for the 2011-2020 period in Quang Ninh Province. Speaking at the workshop, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said “The plan will focus on review of the sectoral colleges in order to ensure suitable training scales and quality, a step toward improving sectoral training of human resources and the building of effective training models to meet the needs of the sector and the economy during the industrialization and modernization process.
According to Phuong Hoang Kim, the biggest difficulty in implementing this plan is how to remove the bottlenecks in human resource development, recruitment, and finance, especially in the current period of economic difficulties, for MOIT’s training institutions.
At the workshop, representatives of agencies, organizations and colleges have made many suggestions to develop practical action plans such as the training capacity based standards, corporate quality human resource training, key human resource model building, and multi-level continuous training programs. Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency in Vietnam (JICA Vietnam) Hayashida Takayuki also recommended the Japanese “Kosen” model associated with JICA’s assistance.
| MOIT’s human resource development plan is designed to fulfill the human resources development task until 2020 approved by the prime minister with the objective of increasing the rates of trained manpower at all levels in the industrial sector from 78 percent in 2010 to 82 percent by 2015 and 92 percent by 2020, and in the commercial sector from 67 percent in 2010 to 80 percent by 2015 and 88 percent by 2020. |
Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang welcomed the suggestions on human resource development and assigned the Department of Human Resource Development to collect the suggested ideas and proposals and complete the human resource action plan for the 2013-2020 period.
The minister emphasized the need to restructure training institutions; develop training strategies and a roadmap for appropriate training; improve the quality of training and administration; engage the private sector in training; and increase training links with domestic and foreign institutions and colleges./.
By Hong Duong
Đăng ký: VietNam News
